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Andrew Motion: Selected Poems 1976-1997

Andrew Motion: Selected Poems 1976-1997

by Sir Andrew Motion (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. Dramatic monologues, elegies, poems of social and political observation, love lyrics - all are part of this important poet's repertoire. Andrew Motion's concern for the extremes of human experience and the artistic integrity that insists on his addressing the reader with maximum clarity and impact are consistent features of a career otherwise remarkable for its imaginative range and technical versatility.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0571195040
ISBN 13: 9780571195046
Book Overview: The author has won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Whitbread Prize for Biography.

Author Bio
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.