Blake Morrison and The Hosepipe Band

Never The Right Time

‘Be honest’, says Blake Morrison in the poem ‘Hug’, and expertly takes his own advice. His meditations on age, family and the planet’s peril look hard at conclusions while celebrating what remains. The result is exemplary: lucid but luminous. – Andrew Motion

After he celebrated the Suffolk landscape and seascape in his Shingle Street collaboration with the Hosepipe Band, Blake Morrison has now broadened his range to encompass themes of elation, regret, nostalgia, sensuality and domestic comedy. There’s a sense of passing time or ‘timefulness’ – of fading memories, missed chances and the coming of age. But his touch remains light throughout.

The second half of the evening will be devoted to poems from other poetry collections by Blake.