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May 19, 2024 · Andrew Motion: My boarding school was brutal – birdwatching freed me from its misery. The former poet laureate on a life of avian encounters, from spotting ospreys in the Cairngorms to...
May 5, 2024 · Andrew Motion was the UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. His poetry collections and celebrated biographies of John Keats and Philip Larkin have received a number of prizes,...
May 5, 2024 · Andrew Motion was the UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. His poetry collections and celebrated biographies of John Keats and Philip Larkin have received a number of prizes, including the Dylan...
Sep 6, 2023 · The former poet laureate’s new memoir is a fascinating study of how a public figure can re-landscape his private world.
Nov 1, 2023 · Development invites you to hear from Sir Andrew Motion FRSL as part of The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series for his talk titled “Poetry and the Subject”. Andrew Motion read English at Oxford University where he won the Newdigate Prize and studied the work of Edward Thomas — an abiding influence.
Nov 2, 2023 · Andrew Motion, the book’s co-editor, discusses the ways elegy shapes memory, giving it meaning. He also reflects on the variety of elegy and how it stretches beyond the human, honouring loss of...
Sep 20, 2023 · 15. 375 views 10 months ago. This is recording of a special Zoom event organised by The Philip Larkin Society on 16th September 2023 which featured two of the Society's Honorary Vice Presidents,...
Nov 2, 2023 · Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. Motion was appointed Poet Laureate on 1 May 1999, following the death of Ted Hughes, the previous incumbent.
Aug 6, 2024 · It has more in it 'of the talk of friends or lovers' than 'the shouting of rhetorician, reciter or politician'. Andrew Motion, "Burning Snow," in New Statesman (© 1980 The Statesman & Nation ...
Aug 6, 2024 · His 'gentle eye' is extraordinarily affectionate and observant, but is rather apt to tyrannise his tone of voice. Fisher obviously realises the danger, and occasionally—and often successfully ...
