A Season of Love · Episode 7

Against Dieting

Blake Morrison

3 July 20264 min
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A Yorkshire poet makes a patient, slightly exasperated, entirely heartfelt case against his partner's diet. He has read the books. He has jogged alongside her. He has eaten the cardboard called crispbread. And now he wants to go on record: enough.

In ten lines of warm domestic comedy, Morrison arrives at one of the simplest and most beautiful declarations love can make. Just six words at the end that say everything — I want not less but more of you.

The poem in this episode is read aloud in full on Spotify.
Listen to hear Morrison's patient, warm declaration in his own words.