Thank you for your support. Professor Andrew Motion was born in London on 26 October 1952, and read English at University College, Oxford. How much has Poem Analysis donated to charity? His poetry collections include Independence (1981); Secret Narratives (1983); Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984 (1984), which won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Natural Causes (1987), which won the Dylan Thomas Award; The Price of Everything (1994); Salt Water (1997) and Selected Poems 1976-1997 (1998).Andrew Motion is also the author of several acclaimed biographies including The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit (1986), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (1993), which won the Whitbread Biography Award; a life of John Keats published in 1997; and Wainewright the Poisoner (2000), an account of the life of Thomas Wainewright, critic, forger, painter and suspected murderer.Andrew Motion lives in London with his wife and their three children. He was editor of Poetry Review (1981-83) and was Poetry Editor and Editorial Director at London publishers Chatto & Windus (1983-89). An acclaimed poet (and champion of poetry), critic, biographer and lecturer, Andrew Motion became He was awarded the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for his poem ‘Inland’, included in his first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers, published in 1977.

- Andrew MotionAndrew Motion read English at Oxford University where he won the Newdigate Prize and studied the work of Edward Thomas, an abiding influence.

Between 1976 and 1980, Motion taught English at the University of Hull and while there, at age 24, he had his first volume of poetry published. Andrew Motion was born in London and raised in Stisted, Essex.

That same year, his biography of John Keats became the basis for the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or nominated film ‘Bright Star’, directed by Jane Campion.Andrew Motion now lives in Baltimore, U.S.A., where he is currently Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.The first was made on 2 December 2004 at the Audio Workshop, London. When friends no longer remembered Andrew Motion’s prose memoir, In the Blood (2006), was widely acclaimed, praised as ‘an act of magical retrieval’ (Daily Telegraph) and ‘a hymn to familial love’ (Independent).

He has been Chairman of the Arts Council of England’s Literature Panel since 1996. Both were produced by Richard Carrington.The free tracks you can enjoy in the Poetry Archive are a selection of a poet’s work. Motion's style has also often been compared to the British poet From 1977 until 1981, Motion served as Lecturer in English at the University of Hull, where he met and became close friends with the poet and librarian Motion has also published several collections of autobiographical prose, including Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and knighted in 1999, Motion served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

Now having left the UK’s shores, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel but this time, in verse. Andrew Motion lives in London with his wife and their three children. In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. The ‘flower-lit coffin’ which is set ‘in vaulted public space’ is ready for the Queen’s dead body which is ‘set free from self, from sense, from history’. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. More Andrew Motion > sign up for poem-a-day Receive a new poem in your inbox daily. His most recent collection of poems, Public Property, was published in September 2002, and a new short novel, The Invention of Dr Cake, which combines elements of mystery and detective fiction with a love story, is forthcoming in 2003. His other honors include the Arvon Observer Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, among many others.