Blake Morrison writes: ‘Between June and September 2021, I wrote this series of poems about my sister, who had died at the age of 67 two years previously…. Skin & Blister – Cockney rhyming slang for sister – seemed a good title for the poems: our relationship was intimate but also painful.’

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Blake Morrison was born in Yorkshire. He is better known for his two best-selling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me, but is the author of several poetry collections and four novels. A new memoir, Two Sisters, also about his sister, comes out this year. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmith’s University.