£15
120 minutes
The Hearn Recital Room
Wed 16 Oct 2024, 7.30pm

Music    ·    Talks

Blake Morrison and The Hosepipe Band

£15
120 minutes
The Hearn Recital Room
Wed 16 Oct 2024, 7.30pm

Following the success of The Shingle Street collection of poems and concerts, in 2023, Blake Morrison published a new collection of poems: Never the Right Time, which form the basis of this new show of his poems accompanied by music from The Hosepipe Band.

This series of poems carry a strong sense of passing time, with themes evoking emotions tied to moments of joy and sorrow, longing for the past, and the pleasures of the senses, all framed within the context of everyday life. Through this lens, Blake captures both the humor and bittersweetness of  life’s transitions.

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

‘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