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  • by Sir Andrew Motion
    £8.99

    Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens.

  • by Sir Andrew Motion
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  • by Sir Andrew Motion
    £14.99

    The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal life of the tortured genius, critically spurned and dying young. What Andrew Motion brings to bear on the subject is a deep understanding of how Keats fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time.

  • by Sir Andrew Motion
    £14.99

    Philip Larkin, known to many through his poems, contrived to present to the world a picture of himself which kept many facets of his complicated personality hidden. This biography is written by Larkin's literary executor and close friend, Andrew Morton.

  • by Sir Andrew Motion
    £9.49

    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. Now, twelve years later and three years after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel - but this time in verse.

  • - George, Constant and Kit
    by Sir Andrew Motion
    £16.49

    A story of three generations destroyed by drink, drugs and bohemian life. George Lambert served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and became Australia's leading painter. His son Constant founded the Sadlers Wells ballet, and Kit Lambert managed the pop group, The Who, and was murdered.

  • - A Memoir of my Childhood
    by Sir Andrew Motion
    £9.49

    In the Blood is Andrew Motion's beautifully written memoir of growing up in post-war England - an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life and country life.

  • by Sir Andrew Motion
    £7.99

    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 in Mere. Among his best-known books of poetry are "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect" (1844) and "Hwomely Rhymes" (1859).

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