Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken po...

The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through ...

The story of the three Lamberts is as cruel and horrifying as any Greek tragedy... This title pre...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of...

Ten War Poems

New collection, offering a variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, examining the private domai...

First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism f...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected...

'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, int...

What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the bras...

Despair over human impermanence and the desire to preserve what has been known and felt, even gri...

A verse memoir from the former poet laureate giving tragic resonance to the subjects and the pers...

In Motion's new collection, real and imagined histories converge to present a complex portrait of...

This selection, chosen by Andrew Motion himself from three decades of work, is an outstanding rep...

Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Is...

Home Country is a Chiltern memoir, from childhood dens to explorations on the fringes of London.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past

With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser ...

From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return. Andrew Motion'...

William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learne...

Philip Larkin: A Writer''s Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed ...

The literary essays in Ways of Life look at a wide assortment of writers, from John Clare and Ivo...

A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar -arranged concentrically ...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected...

On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Neg...

This book is made up of fifteen poems that Andrew Motion has written since moving from England to...

From England’s former Poet Laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated care...

From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this sele...