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Andrew Motion
Standard Name: Motion, Andrew
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Elspeth Huxley | 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... |
| Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | 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... |
| Reception | Carol Ann Duffy | 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,... |
| Reception | Philip Larkin | 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... |
| Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. |
| Reception | E. J. Scovell | 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), qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Reception | Alice Oswald | Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion
chose Memorial as his book of the year. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 71390 (27 December 2014): 23 |
| Reception | Fleur Adcock | 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... |
| Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 126 |
| Textual Features | Philip Larkin | The Willow Gables stories reveal, through their zany fantasy, something of Larkin's early unease with women. Many readers have judged that he here shamelessly depicts women as inferior and inadequate approximations to, or deviations from... |
| Textual Production | U. A. Fanthorpe | 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 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | 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... |
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