Sleeping on Islands - A Life in Poetry

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 Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. Vorwort A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate. Zusammenfassung Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Motion
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2023
• EAN: 9780571375295
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37529-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society and culture: general, Autobiography: writers