Event overview
Blake Morrison, Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, will be in conversation about his new memoir, Two Sisters
Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years, and both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with sibling relationships in literature and those of literary figures.
Blake’s sister Gillian struggled with alcoholism for a large part of her life, and her shocking early death is the starting point for Two Sisters. Blake returns to their childhood to search for the origins of her later difficulties. As he unravels this narrative, he deals movingly in the guilt and shame that will be familiar to every person who has struggled with addiction and other long-term illness in their family. He is unflinching in doing so, and the result is a book which provides testament to that common struggle, as well as acknowledging the complex, hidden undercurrents on which all our lives are based.
Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and journalist. His non-fiction books include And When Did You Last See Your Father? (1993), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize and the Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award, As If (1997), about the murder of the toddler James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993, and a memoir of his mother, Things My Mother Never Told Me (2002). His poetry includes the collections Dark Glasses (1984), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and Shingle Street (2015). He is a regular literary critic for the Guardian.
This is a free, in-person event, that is also being livestreamed.
Please register for the livestream via the link below. If you are planning on attending in-person, there is no need to register.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Mar 2023 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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