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Essex Clay by Andrew Motion
$33.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent). Now, twelve years later and three years after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recrea ...Show more
In the Blood : A memoir of my childhood by Andrew Motion
$27.95 AUD
Category: General
Written from a teenage child's point of view, "Motion" captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion for boo ...Show more
Love in a Life by Andrew Motion
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poe ...Show more
New and Selected Poems 1977-2022 by Andrew Motion
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this selection draws together work that in a variety of ways offers intimate reflections on memory and the cost of human experience. This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from ...Show more
Philip Larkin - A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, ...Show more
Poetry by Heart - A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Andrew Motion (Introduction)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christ ...Show more
Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting by Andrew Motion
$43.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart. "The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking". (Simon Armitage). Two years ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, ...Show more
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion
$27.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, ...Show more
The Customs House by Andrew Motion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent ...Show more