OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Andrew Motion
Standard Name: Motion, Andrew
Connections
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Anthologization | Medbh McGuckian | 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... |
Anthologization | Jo Shapcott | 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... |
Anthologization | Fleur Adcock | The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison
and Andrew Motion
, included FA
among its poets. |
Friends, Associates | Anne Stevenson | 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. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 284 |
Friends, Associates | Philip Larkin | PL
's friendship with Jim Sutton
, dating from his schooldays,terminated abruptly in January 1952. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002. 136 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bishop | 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... |
Literary responses | Philip Larkin | 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... |
Literary responses | Philip Larkin | 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... |
Literary responses | Philip Larkin | 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. Brennan, Maeve. The Philip Larkin I Knew. Manchester University Press, 2002. 63 |
Literary responses | Philip Larkin | Andrew Motion
called this, with Love Again (1979), one of the two unqualified successes of his last decade. Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993. 476 |
Literary responses | Anne Stevenson | 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... |
Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | 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... |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | 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... |
Literary responses | Fleur Adcock | 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... |
Publishing | Selima Hill | 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. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003. (1988) Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40. 39 |
Timeline
23 September 2005: A commission from The Guardian to established...
Women writers item
23 September 2005
A commission from The Guardian to established poets to write a contemporary nursery rhyme produced mostly little pieces about doom and gloom.
“Are you sitting comfortably?”. Guardian Unlimited, 23 Sept. 2005.
Texts
Rossetti, Christina, and Andrew Motion. Commonplace. Hesperus, 2005.
Motion, Andrew. “Digging Deep”. Guardian Online.
Motion, Andrew. “Overblown apparatus”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4010, p. 108.
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Motion, Andrew. “The agony, ecstasy and lots of hot soup”. Guardian Weekly, p. 39.