![]() ![]() ![]() He has said of his own work, “I want my writing to be as clear as water. ![]() Known for narrative poems that often take up historical events in a meditative mode, Motion’s poetry manages clarity of expression while hinting at turbulent or unresolved depths. Motion’s early collections of poetry include The Pleasure Steamers (1977) Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984 (1984), which received a John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Natural Causes (1987), which won a Dylan Thomas Prize. From 1999–2009, he was poet laureate for the UK. Motion has served as editor for the Poetry Review and as editorial director and poetry editor for Chatto & Windus he was knighted in 2009. He later taught English at Hull University, where he befriended Philip Larkin. Auden and wrote on the poetry of Welsh poet Edward Thomas for his MLitt. He read English at Oxford University, where he worked with W.H. He attended Radley College in the late 1960s and began reading the work of Thomas Hardy, John Keats, and William Wordsworth. Andrew Motion was born in London and raised in Stisted, Essex. ![]()
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