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Return to Treasure Island
Think of the fortune waiting for you... July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silverโs daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fath...
Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respect...
A swashbuckling tale of adventure, by a literary legend, that revisits the beloved characters of Treasure Island. It's almost twenty years after the e...
This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events....
Return to Treasure Island: Young Adult Edition
โI always liked your father โ he was a lad of spirit. He was clever enough to know the value of an adventure, at any rate, and brave enough to car...
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). W...
The Pleasure Steamers is Andrew Motion's first collection of poems. Formally adventurous, in the way his work has continued to be, the collection expl...
Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation
'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascin...
Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Dir...
George, Constant and Kit
'A bald summary does no justice to the subtlety and exceptional lucidity of a book which turns the bland, familiar, intrinsically worthy stuff of so m...
Selected Poems 1975-2015
From Englandโs former Poet Laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated career, presented for the first time by an American pub...
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When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, T...
Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which ...
New & Selected Poems
The Mower introduces the poetry of British poet laureate Andrew Motion to American readers for the first time. This selection, chosen by Andrew Motion...
A Life in Poetry
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 ...
George, Constant & Kit
"Andrew Motion's prose memoir, In the Blood (2006), was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to fa...
Poems for Learning and Reciting
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart 'The poems we learn stay with us ...
This book is made up of fifteen poems that Andrew Motion has written since moving from England to the United States in 2015. It is full of the shock a...
A Memoir of My Childhood
Despair over human impermanence and the desire to preserve what has been known and felt, even grief, reverberate at the heart of this memoir of childh...
The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Andrew Motion brings all his lyricism and inventiveness to bear in this fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. A...
On Places, Painters and Poets : Selected Essays and Reviews 1994-2008
A richly varied and rewarding collection of Andrew Motion's best critical writings....
Poems, 1974-1984
Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which...
What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid...
A Novel
"Washed ashore after escaping Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins and his companion Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Their sh...
The stunning new sequence of poems from former poet laureate Andrew Motion....
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on so...
This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Movin...
From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this selection draws together work that in a variety of ways o...
In the Blood is Andrew Motion's beautifully written memoir of growing up in post-war England - an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life ...
Andrew Motion's first collection as Poet Laureate - now in Faber typographic series look....
POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the persona...