Public Property - Softcover

Andrew Motion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571218598 ISBN 13: 9780571218592

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

Andrew Motion's new collection moves between private and public realms. In a series of elegiac idylls he conjures expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood - and reconsiders moments of the Victorian past. There are poems for vanished friends and public figures alike, provoking that most sensitive of concerns: what should we make public, what should be made public of us?

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.

Review:

'A book that anyone who enjoys poetry will find moving and rewarding' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571218598
• ISBN 13: 9780571218592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112