Motion, Andrew
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Motion, Andrew (1952– ), poet, born in London, educated at University College, Oxford, where he won the
Newdigate Prize. His first collection, mostly lyrical in character and showing the influence of
Larkin,
The Pleasure Steamers (1978), was a great critical success and was followed by
Independence (1981);
Secret Narratives (1983), containing a sequence of short narrations;
Dangerous Play (1984), which brings together selections from his first three volumes with new poems and an autobiographical prose piece, ‘Skating’;
Natural Causes (1987);
Love in a Life (1991), a narrative in which the stories of two marriages gradually emerge and coalesce;
Salt Water (1997); and
Public Property (2002).
The Price of Everything (1994) contains two long poems, ‘Lines of Desire’ and ‘Joe Soap’. In 1995 he succeeded M.
Bradbury to the chair of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. He has published two major literary biographies, of Larkin (1993) and
Keats (1997). His novels include
The Pale Comparison (1989),
Famous for the Creatures (1991), and
The Invention of Dr Cake (2003). He was appointed
poet laureate in 1999.
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Fowles, John (Robert)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
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Fowles, John Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Bradbury, Malcolm (Stanley)
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Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
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