Andrew Motion

Before her next substantial poetry volume, UAF published Four Dogs: A Poem in a limited edition, 1980; Four Poems as number 12 in the Other Branch Readings Series put out by Bath Place Community Arts Press

DW 's manuscripts survive in the collection at Dove Cottage in Grasmere. The twentieth century saw a burst of publication of her writing in scholarly editions. Ernest de Selincourt edited her Journals in 1941...

Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...

The Willow Gables stories reveal, through their zany fantasy, something of Larkin's early unease with women. Many readers have judged that he here shamelessly depicts women as inferior and inadequate approximations to, or deviations from...

CAD was deemed to be a top candidate to fill the position of Poet Laureate (left vacant by the death of Ted Hughes ). She was considered the popular choice, but the appointment went to...

Two days before the appointment was to be announced, the bookmakers stopped taking bets on the appointment after a surge in favour of Duffy. Response to the announcement concentrated heavily on her gender. Her predecessor,...

Andrew Motion ascribes the excellent sales of A Girl in Winter to the boom in fiction sales which had occurred during the war and the years immediately following. This does not account for the contrast...

Anthony Thwaite edited PL 's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion published a biography in 1993. Both Alan Bennett and Martin Amis have edited selections of Larkin's...

After Ted Hughes died on 28 October 1998, FA 's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion . Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received...

Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens (who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility),Anne Stevenson ,...

SH published her first poetry collection, Saying Hello at the Station, through Chatto , whose poetry editor, Andrew Motion , had himself approached her to ask for a volume.

Philippa Scott found it such fun to have Elspeth on hand researching and writing. Peter Scott had left 72 volumes of diaries, and her publisher, Faber and Faber , paid £5,000 for two years' research...

The future poet laureate Andrew Motion found the book seriously flawed by portentousness and the sentences of excessively wrought luxuriance with which its opening chapters abound. But he saw these as flaws in a text...

Motion mentions the famous comparison of Heaney with Yeats , and observes that they shared a commitment to the matter of Ireland, but that Heaney eschews Yeats's cloudy symbols for an investment in the...

Her fellow-poet Andrew Motion wrote in the Times Literary Supplement about this volume that AS 's method is to confront the harsh realities of life, acknowledge the temptation to evade them, and then discover rewards...