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Sir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work.
From 1999–2009, he was poet laureate for the UK. Motion’s early collections of poetry include The Pleasure Steamers (1977); Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984 (1984), which received a John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and Natural Causes (1987), which won a Dylan Thomas Prize.
Andrew Motion, British poet, biographer, and novelist who was especially noted for his narrative poetry. Known for his insight and empathy, he frequently wrote about isolation and loss. Motion served as poet laureate of England from 1999 to 2009.
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Learn about Andrew Motion, a former UK Poet Laureate and a prolific poet, biographer and educator. Explore his poems on themes of grief, memory, landscape and war, and his books on Keats, Philip Larkin and Treasure Island.
Andrew Motion was born in London and raised in Stisted, Essex. He attended Radley College in the late 1960s and began reading the work of Thomas Hardy, John Keats, and William Wordsworth. He read English at Oxford University, where he worked with W.H. Auden and...
Learn about the life and works of Andrew Motion, a British poet, biographer, and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Read his poems, including The Ring, and explore his themes, influences, and awards.
Sir Andrew Motion is a poet, novelist, professor and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. Between 1976-80, Motion taught English at the University of Hull and while there, at age 24, he had his first volume of poetry published.
