Andrew Motion
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Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work.
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Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit ..their delivery will still have important things to tell us.
'TLS' November 25 2005
In the swirl of its poolthe home-coming salmonhas no intuitionof anything changed.
"You Helped Give a Shape", An elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
By day the appalling loose beautyof prowling floes:lions’ heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks,and a thing like a blown rose.
Poem "Ice"
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Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.
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