Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion's first collection since his appointment as Poet Laureate moves between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In a series of elegiac idylls he 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 UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood, was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977-2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.
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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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