Il suo più grande successo è il romanzo memoriale best seller And When Did You Last See Your Father?, da cui di recente, nel 2007, è stato tratto un film. Dal 2003, Morrison è professore di 'Creative and Life Writing' al Goldsmiths College. È membro della Royal Society of Literature.
Pubblicazioni The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s (Oxford University Press, 1980) Seamus Heaney (Methuen, 1982) The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (co-editor with Andrew Motion) (Penguin, 1982) Dark Glasses (Chatto & Windus, 1984) The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper (and Other Poems) (Chatto & Windus, 1987) The Yellow House (illustrations by Helen Craig) (Walker Books, 1987) And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Granta, 1993) Gli uomini sono una beffa degli angeli. Poesia Britannica contemporanea, a cura di Erminia Passannanti, con una prefazione di Blake Morrison (Ripostes, 1994) Penguin Modern Poets 1 (Morrison, James Fenton, Kit Wright) (Penguin, 1995) Mind Readings: Writers' Journeys Through Mental States(co-editor with Sara Dunn and Michèle Roberts) (Minerva, 1996) Pendle Witches (illustrations by Paula Rego) (Enitharmon Press, 1996) The Cracked Plot (Samuel French, 1996) As If (Granta, 1997) Too True (Granta, 1998) Selected Poems (Granta, 1999) The Justification of Johann Gutenberg (Chatto & Windus, 2000) Things My Mother Never Told Me (Chatto & Windus, 2002) Antigone and Oedipus (Northern Broadsides, 2003) South of the River (Chatto & Windus, 2007)
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1980 Eric Gregory Award 1985 Dylan Thomas Prize 1985 Somerset Maugham Award per Dark Glasses 1988 E. M. Forster Award 1993 Esquire/Volvo/Waterstone's Non-Fiction Book Award per And When Did You Last See Your Father? 1994 Premio PEN/Ackerley per And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Voci correlate And When Did You Last See Your Father? (film del 2007)
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