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About the Author Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biogr...

This book consists of two long poems. "Lines of Desire" tells the story of an individual in crisis, under cruel pressure both from past and present...

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

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

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...

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 kal...

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...

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 fa...

Product Description Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the mode...

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. ...

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...

Review A masterpiece of evocation, it conjures up its imaginary island with superb fullness and immediacy. . . it's as a magnificent panorama of t...

Product Description York railway station, December, 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompany...

Review Three Poems . . . travels light, illuminated yet never shackled by scholarship, and investigates the way life does - and does not - revise ...

Review As with the very best literature, its crystalline readability fast eclipses its topicality ― Mail on Sunday [A] devastating portrait of vi...

The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton. They were the closest o...

Teaching kids stress management skills early in life will help them to grow into happy and healthy adults. And if you work with children or adolesc...

Review 'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that tired view of the poet as mouse that barely roared in favour of ...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written...