Andrew Motion

Professor Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate. His poems are known for the insightful way in which they explore loss and desolation.

Publications

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• The Pleasure Steamers (1978) poetry
• 1986 Elizabeth Bishop (Chatterton Lectures on an English Poet)
• Natural Causes (1987) poetry
• 1988 Philip Larkin (Contemporary Writers)
• The Pale Companion (1989). fiction
• 1992 Famous for the Creatures
• 1993 Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life (biography)
• 1995 The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit (biography)
• ? Goodnestone : a sequence
• 1995 The Price of Everything
• Salt Water (1997) poetry
• 1998 Keats (biography)
• 1998 Take 20
• 1998 Sarah Raphael: Strip!
• 1999 Selected Poems 1976-1997
• 1999 Babel
• 2000 Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (biographical novel)
• 2002 Public Property (poetry)
• 2003 The Invention of Dr Cake
• 2005 Spring Wedding (poem in honor of the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles)

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• Independence
• Secret narratives
• Dangerous play : poems, 1974-1984
• Love in a life
• Firsthand

Edited works / Introductions

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• Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Everyman Library) (Editor)
• 1994 New Writing 3 by Andrew Motion, Candice Rodd (Editor) (reprinted '94)
• 1981 Poetry of Edward Thomas
• Verses of the Poets Laureate: From John Dryden to Andrew Motion by Hilary Laurie (Compiler), Andrew Motion (Introduction) (Paperback - September 1999)
• 1982 The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry by Ed. Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion
• 1981 Selected Poems: William Barnes (Penguin Classics) Andrew Motion (Editor)
• Here to Eternity: An Anthology of Poetry by Andrew Motion (Editor)
• Paper Scissors Stone: New Writing from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA by Andrew Motion (Introduction) (Paperback)
• May Anthology 2002 Poetry and Prose by Andrew Motion (Editor), Nick Cave (Editor) (Paperback)
• The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction & Poetry by Julia Bell (Editor), Andrew Motion (Paperback)