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Public Property Sir Andrew Motion

Public Property By Sir Andrew Motion

Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion


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Summary

Public Property was Andrew Motion's first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. The final section of the book contains a number of elegies and love poems, written in a variety of lyric forms, which provoke concerns that are among the most critical in poetry: What is public art?

Public Property Summary

Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion

Public Property was Andrew Motion's first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. In it, he negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of idylls he conjures the expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood, in scenes as precisely remembered as they are irretrievable. Elsewhere he reconsiders moments from the Victorian past from reticent and surprising angles, and elsewhere again he tackles distinctly contemporary themes and situations. The final section of the book contains a number of elegies and love poems, written in a variety of lyric forms, which provoke concerns that are among the most critical in poetry: What is public art? To whom do our most private sentiments belong?

About Sir Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. In 2015 he was appointed Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University; he lives in Baltimore.

Additional information

GOR013070493
9780571356003
0571356001
Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
2019-07-18
112
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