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Sir Andrew Motion
From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this selection draws together work that in a variety of ways offers intimate reflections on memory and the…
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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.
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A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
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From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchioness, to the vivid prose meditation of the second part, written…
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Andrew Motion’s prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love.
Reissue of prizewinning biography of Larkin by his literary executor and close friend, former poet laureate Andrew Motion - with new jacket and introduction.
Motion’s sixth poetry collection - a profound and tender exploration of ‘marriage’ - reissued as part of the poetry typographic series.
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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 kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages…
A beautifully written memoir touchingly recounting a country childhood shattered by a mother’s terrible riding accident.
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William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster…
A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space.
Ten poems about war selected and introduced by Andrew Motion.
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Newly jacketed reissue of Andrew Motion’s celebrated biography of one of England’s best-loved poets, John Keats.
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John Keats
This new selection of John Keats’s poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.
Sir John Betjeman
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales. –from Slough
When the beloved English poet John…
Isaac Newton, Sir
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
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Isaac Newton
