Join us at Southwold Library for a special afternoon tea event with poet Blake Morrison, as part of the Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival 2025! Blake will be discussing his poems which celebrate East Suffolk.

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Among Blake Morrison’s best-loved poems are those celebrating East Suffolk, with its big skies, reedbeds, and shingle beaches. It’s a landscape he has known and written about for forty years, especially the coastal strip: Covehithe, Dunwich, Sizewell, Shingle Street.

For this event, in discussion with Tamar Yoseloff, he’ll reflect on the importance of Suffolk in his work and why, despite writing memoirs, novels and plays, poetry remains his first love. He’ll also read new poems, from a forthcoming collection, about love, war, age and the loss of his younger sister Gillian.

Blake will be signing copies of his books, kindly supplied by Southwold Books. This event has been made possible with funding from the Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund. Find out more about the Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival.