{"product_id":"9781784746032","title":"Afterburn","description":"Author: Morrison, Blake\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784746032\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 21 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs touching as it is funny, a new collection charting love, loss and life's small wonders from Blake Morrison, the best-selling memoirist and poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age' Fiona Benson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere you are, on the balcony,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sea serenading you,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sun with its armful of light.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e, Blake Morrison returns to poetry, his first calling, to offers scenes from his own life and the lives of others. In psychology, 'afterburn' refers to the time before a past event is assimilated - an idea that resonates through these poems (which themselves linger after reading) about memory and our attempts to articulate, shape or contain it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the collection, not least in two extraordinary sequences - one about his sister, the other about Elizabeth Bishop - the poet sees with new eyes the turning points in a life's accidental course. What holds his wise, touching, melancholy yet joyful poems together are the small intimacies that bind us to others, under time's lengthening shadow- 'you moved too fast for me to catch you \/ and so did the years.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlayful and charming, sometimes rakishly so, \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e nevertheless reveals an open, and vulnerable, heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Distils the insights of a seasoned memoirist into images that linger long after the final page' Julia Copus\u003cbr\u003e'A master of the sonnet . . . I'm taking \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e to my desert island' Hugo Williams\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46882759442590,"sku":"UBD-9781784746032","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781784746032.jpg?v=1779862878","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781784746032","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}