The Invention of Dr Cake Sir Andrew Motion

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The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion

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What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a tantalising novel about poets and their afterlife.

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The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion

About Sir Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.

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Sku

GOR001688175

ISBN 13

9780571216321

ISBN 10

0571216323

Title

The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion

Author

Sir Andrew Motion

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

2004-04-01

Number of pages

160

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N/A

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