Sir Andrew Motion, 1952 in London geboren, ist Dichter, Romancier und Biograf; von 1999 bis 2009 war er Poet Laureate des Vereinigten Königreichs. Seine dichterischen Tätigkeiten hat er stets mit zahlreichen Aufgaben verbunden als Professor für Kreatives Schreiben, als Herausgeber der Zeitschrift Poetry Review, als Verleger und als Kritiker. Er ist Fellow der Royal Society of Literature und unterrichtet heute am Royal Holloway, University of London.
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John Keats: John Keats
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer in …
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Andrew Motion: Cinder Path
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 private domains of feeling infer other lives …
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Andrew Motion: Love in a Life
Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded t …
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Andrew Motion: Price of Everything
This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrativ …
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Andrew Motion: Selected Poems of Andrew Motion
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 …
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€14.10
Andrew Motion: Public Property
In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. …
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Andrew Motion: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by …
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Andrew Motion: Keats
Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known – has b …
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Andrew Motion: Customs House
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 u …
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Andrew Motion: Lamberts
'A bald summary does no justice to the subtlety and exceptional lucidity of a book which turns the bland, familiar, intrinsically worthy stuff of so many fictional family sagas into a biographic …
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Andrew Motion: Peace Talks
The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These medit …
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Andrew Motion: Essex Clay
Andrew Motion's prose memoir, In the Blood (2006), was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent …
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Andrew Motion: Salt Water
Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which he is well-known, combining intense persona …
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Rosalind Fergusson: Collins Rhyming Dictionary
If it’s time for a rhyme, or you need a satiric lyric, the Collins Rhyming Dictionary is the fastest and easiest way to refine your line.The most accessible way to find the rhyme you need. Other rhym …
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Andrew Motion: Coming in to Land
From Englands former Poet Laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated career, presented for the first time by an American publisher Andrew Motion has said, I want my writing to …
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Andrew Motion: Silver
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames, a young boy spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries and listening to his father’s tales of adventures: on the high seas, of curses …
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Andrew Motion: Poetry by Heart
Poetry by Heart – based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart’The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal an …
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Andrew Motion: Silver
Think of the fortune waiting for you July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver s daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers.The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the …
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Andrew Motion: Poetry Of Edward Thomas
When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of hi …
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Andrew Motion: New World
THE END OF THE WORLDOR THE BEGINNING On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island.The Nightingale sunk, their silv …
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Andrew Motion: Silver
I always liked your father he was a lad of spirit. He was clever enough to know the value of an adventure, at any rate, and brave enough to carry it out! What adventure? I asked, although I already k …
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Andrew Motion: Randomly Moving Particles
Andrew Motion's expansive new collection is built around two long poems that form its opening and close. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that includ …
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€11.41
Robert Graves: Good-bye to All That
"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, …
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Jane Austen: Emma
Jane Austen’s Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility’ Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spen …
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Andrew Motion: Sleeping on Islands
Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scene …
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Andrew Motion: New and Selected Poems 1977-2022
This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substanti …
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Andrew Motion & Stephen Regan: Penguin Book of Elegy
‘A tremendous sentimental education of a book … a literary adventure … chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair … fascinating and unignorable’ Kate Kellaway, Observer (P …
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Jane Austen: Emma
Emma is wealthy, beautiful, accomplished and a self-proclaimed matchmaker. When Emma meets Harriet Smith, a young girl of unknown parentage, Emma is convinced she can find Harriet a suitable husband. …
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Andrew Motion: Randomly Moving Particles
<i>Randomly Moving Particles</i> is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, e …
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€17.99
