Afterburn by Blake Morrison non-fiction Other poems illustrate his love

Other poems illustrate his love of wry or fond overhearings

Featuring powerful poetry from:Mandy Coe Laura Mucha Nikki Grimes Naomi Shihab Nye Debjani Chatterjee Coral Rumble Kate Wakeling John Agard Karl Nova James Carter Valerie Bloom Janet Wong Joseph Coelho Ken Nesbitt Jack Prelutsky Nikita Gill Jay Hulme Rachel Plummer Ruth Awolola Elaine Laron And awe-inspiring artwork from:Annalise Barber Mariana Roldan Masha Manapov Nabila Adani

Her 2007 retrospective Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems was followed by two further Welsh-English collections

in the first 'claw full of hair' placed gently on a green shower ledge

Afterburn by Blake Morrison non-fiction Other poems illustrate his love'Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age Fiona Benson Here you are, on the balcony, the sea serenading you, the sun with its armful of light. In Afterburn, 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