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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A verse memoir from the former poet laureate giving tragic resonance to the subjects and the personal losses that have haunted Motion across his writing life, combining Tennysonian melancholy with the narrative momentum of a novel. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Motion, Motion Motion, Sir Andrew Motion
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780571339969
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33996-9
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 144 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems