The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice 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 conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. His most most recent collection of poems, The Cinder Path (2009), was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. The author of several biographies, his authorised life of Philip Larkin (1993) won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. He has published a novella, The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) and a memoir, In the Blood (2006). The Customs House is his eleventh book of poems.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571288113 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571288111 |
| Title | The Customs House |
| Author | Sir Andrew Motion |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2013-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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