Public Property by Andrew Motion
This collection moves between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In a series of elegiac idylls, Motion conjures expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood - in scenes as precisely imagined as they are irretrievable - and reconsiders moments of the Victorian past from reticent and surprising angles. There are poems for vanished friends and public figures alike, variously expressed in lyric forms both extended and compact, provoking that most sensitive of concerns: what should we make public, what should be made public of us?
'Motion is a beautiful lyricist, unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them' Robert Potts, Guardian
Andrew Motion was born in 1952 and educated at University College, Oxford. As a poet and biographer he has received many prizes and awards, including the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Dylan Thomas Award. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571215348 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571215343 |
| Title | Public Property |
| Author | Andrew Motion |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2002-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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