Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion , born the October 26th 1952) is a Poète, novelist and biographer English, which are current the Poète prize winner. Its poems are known for the perspicacious manner with which they explore the loss and desolation.

Raised in Stisted, close to Braintree in the Essex, he studies with the Radley College. When it is 16 years old, his/her mother is victim of an accident of horsemanship and spends the ten following years to plunge and leave the coma, before dying. During the following years, it reads English with the University College and studies the poetry of Edward Thomas. Motion said that it had tried to preserve alive the memory of his mother through poetry.

Andrew Motion is member of the Council of Arts of England and the royal Company of Literature. In addition to these distinctions, it obtained the price Arvon/Observer Prize, the price John Llewellyn Rhys and the price Dylan Thomas. He is currently professor of writing of creation to the Royal Holloway of the Université of London.

In 2003, Motion wrote a poem to protest against the invasion of Iraq, called " Change" mode; ; the poem adopts an external point from point of view, with the third nobody, to describe a speech made by the Mort in the streets of Iraq.

In 2005, it helped with the constitution of files of poetry on line containing the recordings of the historical and contemporary poets reciting their own work.

Biography

  • 1975: gain the price Newdigate for the poséie of students preparing a diploma with Oxford
  • 1976: first editions of poetry
  • 1976 - 1980: teach English with the Université of Hull
  • 1980 - 1982: publish the Poetry Review
  • 1981: gain the international competition of poetry of Arvon with the Letter
  • 1982: publish, with Blake Morrison, the Penguin Book off Contemporary British Poetry
  • 1982 - 1989: leading director and editor of poetry at Chatto & Windus
  • 1986: The Lamberts gains the price Somerset Maugham
  • 1989: professor of writing of creation to the University of East Anglia
  • 1994: Philip Larkin: In Writer' S Life gains the Whitbread price for a biography
  • 1999: named Poet prize winner for ten years only
  • 2003: named professor of writing of creation to the Royal Holloway (University of London)
  • 2003: writing this poem for the 21e birthday of the Prince William:

Publications

  • 1972 Goodnestone : sequence has (a series of 18 poems without title)
  • 1978 The Pleasure Steamers - poetry
  • 1981 Independence - poetry
  • 1986 Elizabeth Bishop (Adhesive tape Readings one year English Poet)
  • 1987 Natural Causes - poetry
  • 1988 Philip Larkin (Contemporary Writers)
  • 1989 The Pale Companion - fiction
  • 1992 Famous for the Creatures
  • 1993 Philip Larkin: In Writer' S Life - biography
  • 1995 The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit - biography
  • 1995 The Price off Everything
  • 1997 Salt Toilets - poetry
  • 1998 Keats - biography
  • 1998 Take 20
  • 1998 Sarah Raphael: Strip!
  • 1999 Selected Poems 1976-1997
  • 1999 Babel
  • 2000 Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions off Thomas Griffiths Wainewright - Romance biographical
  • 2002 Public Property - poetry
  • 2003 The Invention off Dr. Cake
  • 2005 Spring Wedding (poem in the honor of the marriage of the Prince de Galles and Camilla Parker Bowles)

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