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Sir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive , an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work.
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Sir Andew Motion FRSL (Londres, 26 de outubro de 1952) é um...
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Motion has served as editor for the Poetry Review and as editorial director and poetry editor for Chatto & Windus; he was knighted in 2009. From 1999–2009, he was poet laureate for the UK. Motion’s early collections of poetry include The Pleasure Steamers (1977); Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984 (1984), which received a John Llewellyn Rhys ...
Andrew Motion, British poet, biographer, and novelist who was especially noted for his narrative poetry. Known for his insight and empathy, he frequently wrote about isolation and loss. Motion served as poet laureate of England from 1999 to 2009. Learn more about his life and work.
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London, England. Publishers: Faber and Faber Ltd. Agents: United Agents. Biography. Professor Andrew Motion was born in London on 26 October 1952, and read English at University College, Oxford. He taught English at the University of Hull (1976-81) where he met the poet Philip Larkin.
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He edited the Poetry Review, before becoming Poetry Editor at Chatto and Windus and, from 1996, Chairman of the Arts Council of England’s Literature Panel. In 1999 he was appointed UK Poet Laureate, serving until 2009 as a high-profile champion of poetry as well as Founder/Director of The Poetry Archive to 2016.
Read poems by this poet. Born in London in October 26, 1952, Sir Andrew Motion was raised in Stisted, in Essex, the son of an army colonel and brewery executive. He studied at Radley College from 1965 to 1970, where he was introduced to the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others.
