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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion was the UK’s Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and his new collection, Peace Talks, is forthcoming by Faber & Faber. He is a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Poetry in the Beginning

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion shares how he came to write poetry.

Poetry | Issue 133 padlock
Poetry | Issue 133 padlock

Hunters in the Snow

Andrew Motion

‘The hunters have all failed, / the three hunters and their forlorn dogs / now arriving home from the mountain / which thunders above their village’

Poetry | Issue 133 padlock
Poetry | Issue 133 padlock

A Meeting of Minds with Henry David Thoreau

Andrew Motion

‘What am I doing here more than looking – / which I would stop / only to help things through their vanishing’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 133 padlock

Breaking In

Andrew Motion

‘He dedicated The Less Deceived to her: it was the only collection of poems he dedicated to anyone.‘

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