Sir Andrew Motion

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleid

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on s

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleid

Public Property was Andrew Motion's first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. The final section of the book contains a number of

The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers, from John Clare and Ivor Gurney, to marginal figures such as Leigh Hunt and

In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work.

The story of the three Lamberts is as cruel and horrifying as any Greek tragedy... This title presents a portrayal of the way in which the Lamberts in

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, twelve

With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light, and extends the selection

A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work,

From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchioness, to the vivid prose meditation of the second pa

In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public real

What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love.

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary '

Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self-destructive family.

Part of the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, this title looks back to conflicts of the past: to the 'war to end all wars'; to Rupert Brooke on h