The Price of Everything

About the author

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood, was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977 - 2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.

Summary

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First World War to contemporary apocalypse. Both are remarkable additions to an important body of work.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Motion, Sir Andrew Motion
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.1994
• EAN: 9780571169009
• ISBN: 978-0-571-16900-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 130 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets