Andrew Motion

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.

MMG has been invited to contribute poems to many anthologies. Early in her career, her work was included in the influential Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion and published by...

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 ,...

JS had already appeared with Helen Dunmore and Matthew Sweeney in 1997 in Penguin Modern Poets volume 12. Writing by her was included in three anthologies in the year 2001. Andrew Motion placed her work...

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...

In Oxford AS met a number of other poets: John Wain , Anne Ridler , Elizabeth Jennings , Anne Born , Andrew Motion , Craig Raine , Peter Levi , and Anne Pennington , who died a few years later.

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...

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...

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...