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Public Property
Sir Andrew Motion
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Description for Public Property
Paperback. 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 and reconsiders moments of the Victorian past from reticent and surprising angles. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion 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 ... Read more
In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571218592
SKU
9780571218592
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About Sir Andrew Motion
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Public Property
'A book that anyone who enjoys poetry will find moving and rewarding' Sunday Times