How Long to Read Shingle Street

How Long Does it Take to Read Shingle Street?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Shingle Street by Blake Morrison

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

‘A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track, A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet, A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap, A wrecking ground, that’s Shingle Street.’ Blake Morrison’s first two collections, Dark Glasses (1984) and The Ballad of a Yorkshire Ripper (1987) established him as one of our most inventive and accomplished contemporary poets. In his first full-length collection for nearly thirty years, Shingle Street sees a return to the form with which he started his career. Set along the Suffolk coast, the opening poems address a receding world – an eroding landscape, ‘abashed by the ocean’s passion’. But coastal life gives way to other, more dangerous, vistas: a wave unleashes a flood-tide of terror; a sequence of topical poems lays bare pressing political issues; while elsewhere portraits of the past bring forth the dear and the departed. Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents.

How long is Shingle Street?

Shingle Street by Blake Morrison is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shingle Street Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Shingle Street aloud.

What Reading Level is Shingle Street?

Shingle Street is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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