New and Selected Poems 1977–2022
Publisher,Faber & Faber
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No. of Pages, 240
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Certain preoccupations unite the book, which from first to last is particularly concerned with the ways in which our lives are shaped by loss - by wars, by accidents, by the erosion of time and by grief. Motion is an energetic and protean spirit, a listener and a watcher, and while his poems mostly develop his themes by using intimate and lyric forms, they also sometimes adapt from direct speech and documentary sources. In every case, and especially movingly in the long poem 'Essex Clay', Motion uses acts of personal witness to reflect the vulnerabilities of the world at large.
These are extraordinary poems of and for our times, enlarging our sense of the cost of human experience even as they refine those sensibilities that keep us most alive and engaged with the present.
Author bio:
Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. His memoir Sleeping on Islands is also published this year. He lives in Baltimore, where he is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.
- Dimensions : 14.5 x 2.2 x 22.4 cm
