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Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward Thomas for an M. Lit. From 1976 to 1980 he taught English at the University of Hull; from 1980 to 1982 he edited the Poetry Review, and from 1982 to 1989 he was Editorial Director and Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is a member of the Arts Council of England and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Andrew Motion is the author of eight books of poems, of four biographies, including the authorized life of Philip Larkin, and of critical studies of Larkin and Edward Thomas. He has been the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and the Whitbread Prize for Biography. He was appointed Poet Laureate in May 1999.
 
 
New and upcoming books
May 2024

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Waders
 
Series
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Novels
   The Invention of Dr Cake (2003)
   Silver (2012)
   The New World (2014)
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Collections
   Goodnestone (poems) (1972)
   Inland (poems) (1976)
   The Pleasure Steamers (poems) (1978)
   Independence (poems) (1981)
   Secret Narratives (poems) (1983)
   Dangerous Play (poems) (1984)
   Natural Causes (poems) (1987)
   Two Poems (poems) (1988)
   Love in a Life (poems) (1991)
   The Price of Everything (poems) (1994)
   Penguin Modern Poets Book 11 (poems) (1997) (with Michael Donaghy and Hugo Williams)
   Salt Water (poems) (1997)
   Here To Eternity (poems) (2001)
   A Long Story (poems) (2001)
   Selected Poems 1976-1997 (poems) (2002)
   Public Property (poems) (2002)
   Romantic Engineer (poems) (2007)
   After the War (poems) (2007)
   The Mower (poems) (2009)
   The Cinder Path (poems) (2009)
   The Customs House (poems) (2012)
   Peace Talks (poems) (2015)
   Ten War Poems (poems) (2016)
   English Elegies (poems) (2017)
   Coming in to Land (2017)
   Essex Clay (poems) (2018)
   Randomly Moving Particles (poems) (2020)
   New and Selected Poems 1977-2022 (poems) (2023)
   The Penguin Book of Elegy (poems) (2023) (with Stephen Regan)
   Waders (poems) (2024)
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Anthologies edited
   New Writing: v. 2 (1993) (with Malcolm Bradbury)
   New Writing: v. 3 (1994)
   Take 20 (1998)
   Babel (1999)
   Poetry in Public (2000)
   Firsthand (2001)
   Paper Scissors Stone (2002)
   Listen and Enjoy French Poetry (2003)
   Full of Star's Dreaming (2003)
   The Poetry Quartets: v. 8 (2004)
   From Here to Eternity (2005)
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Andrew Motion recommends
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A Herring Famine (2017)
Adam O'Riordan
"One of the most talented writers I've come across, with tremendous delicacy of feeling and expression."
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K (2002)
Hong Ying
"Like all Hong Ying's work, K is written with a wonderfully intense simplicity - it's tough, uncompromising, direct and tense with strong emotion, but also full of poetry and grace."
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After Nature (2002)
W G Sebald
"A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvelously warm and intelligent one."

Anthologies containing stories by Andrew Motion
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Midsummer Nights (2009)
Tales from the Opera
edited by
Jeanette Winterson
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Sightlines (2001)
edited by
P D James and Harriet Harvey Wood

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