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Raised in Stisted near Braintree in Essex , he was educated at Radley College . When he was 16, his mother had a riding accident and spent the next ten years in and out of a coma before she died. During this time, he read English at University College, Oxford and studied the poetry of Edward Thomas for his MLitt. degree. Motion has said that he tried to keep his memory of his mother alive through poetry.

Andrew Motion is a member of the Arts Council Of England and a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature . Beside the prizes mentioned above, he has won the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.

In , showing a speech made by Death in the streets of Iraq.

In 2005 he helped to bring online The Poetry Archive containing both historic and contemporary recordings of poets reciting their own work.


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PUBLICATIONS

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  • ''The Pleasure Steamers'' (1978) poetry

  • 1986 ''Elizabeth Bishop (Chatterton Lectures on an English Poet)''

  • ''Natural Causes'' (1987) poetry

  • 1988 ''Philip Larkin (Contemporary Writers)''

  • ''The Pale Companion'' (1989). fiction

  • 1992 ''Famous for the Creatures''

  • 1993 ''Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life'' (biography)

  • 1995 ''The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit'' (biography)

  • ? ''Goodnestone : a sequence''

  • 1995 ''The Price of Everything''

  • ''Salt Water'' (1997) poetry

  • 1998 ''Keats'' (biography)

  • 1998 ''Take 20''

  • 1998 ''Sarah Raphael: Strip!''

  • 1999 ''Selected Poems 1976-1997''

  • 1999 ''Babel''

  • 2000 ''Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright'' (biographical novel)

  • 2002 ''Public Property'' (poetry)

  • 2003 ''The Invention of Dr Cake''

  • 2005 ''Spring Wedding'' (poem in honor of the wedding of the Prince Of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles )


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  • ''Independence''

  • ''Secret narratives''

  • ''Dangerous play: poems, 1974-1984''

  • ''Love in a life''

  • ''Firsthand''


Edited works / Introductions
  • ''Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems'' (Everyman Library) (Editor)

  • 1994 ''New Writing 3'' by Andrew Motion, Candice Rodd (Editor) (reprinted '94)

  • 1981 ''Poetry of Edward Thomas''

  • ''Verses of the Poets Laureate: From John Dryden to Andrew Motion'' by Hilary Laurie (Compiler), Andrew Motion (Introduction) (Paperback - September 1999)

  • 1982 ''The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry'' by Ed. Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion

  • 1981 ''Selected Poems: William Barnes'' (Penguin Classics) Andrew Motion (Editor)

  • ''Here to Eternity: An Anthology of Poetry'' by Andrew Motion (Editor)

  • ''Paper Scissors Stone: New Writing from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA '' by Andrew Motion (Introduction) (Paperback)

  • ''May Anthology 2002 Poetry and Prose'' by Andrew Motion (Editor), Nick Cave (Editor) (Paperback)

  • ''The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction & Poetry'' by Julia Bell (Editor), Andrew Motion (Foreword)

  • The Mays



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