Philip Blake Morrison FRSL (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres.

[3] In 2003, he became Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, London, and in 2008 he became chair of The Reader Organisation, the UK centre for research and promotion of reading as a therapeutic activity.

[4] South of the River, described by The Observer as "a fat summer read of a novel, panoramic and commercial",[5] was published in April 2007.

(1993) was hailed by Hugo Williams in The Spectator as "a classic of family literature", and praised by Roy Hattersley in The Guardian as "a near-masterpiece", while Nick Hornby called it a "painful, funny, frightening, moving, marvellous book".

It is an honourable achievement",[11] while the reviewer for The New York Times concluded: "I don't expect to read a more enthralling memoir all year.

"[12] Morrison's most recent memoir is Two Sisters (2023),[13] which Rachel Cooke characterised as "a wonderfully heartfelt and tender thing: delicate and unstinting and clear-eyed.

was made into a film of the same name, released in 2007, starring Jim Broadbent as Morrison's father, Juliet Stevenson as his mother, Gina McKee as his wife, Sarah Lancashire as Aunty Beaty, and Colin Firth and Matthew Beard playing Blake Morrison himself as an adult and teenager, respectively.

[15] The TV series of Morrison's novel South of the River is being made by World Productions and adapted by screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst.