Andrew Motion

The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion , included FA among its poets.

Reviewing The Inner Harbour for the Observer, Peter Porter reported with satisfaction that Adcock was getting better and better. In Encounter, John Mole likened her combination of fastidious classicism and violent phantasmagoric effect...

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...

The strength of EB 's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion , Seamus Heaney , James Fenton , and Eavan Boland , and during the 1990s...

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,...

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

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...

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 volume had just one review: in the Coventry Evening Telegraph. It said that Larkin's recondite imagery is couched in phrases that make up in a kind of wistful hinted beauty what they lack...

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...

Ten years after his first collection appeared, this one at last brought PL admiration and respect. The Times Literary Supplement called him a poet of quite exceptional importance, and The Times picked the volume as...

Maeve Brennan was responding to one side of this mix when she later wrote that she found this collection angry, iconoclastic, loveless in tone, lacking the warmth and compassion of The Whitsun Weddings.

Andrew Motion called this, with Love Again (1979), one of the two unqualified successes of his last decade.