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Waders by Andrew Motion 9781952119873
Booksplease Price: £15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119873Author Andrew MotionFormat HardbackImprint McSweeney'sPublisher McSweeney'sWeight(grams)... -
Keats by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the... -
The Price of Everything by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to... -
Salt Water by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which he is well-known, combining intense personal... -
The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Andrew 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... -
Philip Larkin by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. First published in 1982, Andrew Motion's study begins with an account of... -
The Cinder Path by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and... -
Peace Talks by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These... -
Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each... -
Essex Clay by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, over a decade later and after moving to live and work... -
Love in a Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to... -
Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Public 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... -
Randomly Moving Particles: Poems by Andrew Motion
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.32Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with... -
The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a... -
Randomly Moving Particles by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with... -
The New World by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099583783
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89THE END OF THE WORLDOR THE BEGINNING...On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island.The Nightingale sunk, their... -
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.88Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author,... -
Philip Larkin (Routledge Revivals) Andrew Motion 9780415562430
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. First published in 1982, Andrew Motion's study begins with an account of... -
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.84'Families are societies in miniature.'The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations:... -
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, intimate and evocative.' New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, In the Blood is an... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes... -
Randomly Moving Particles by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571352081
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with... -
Bedford Square: 5 by Sir Andrew Motion 9781908742063
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ten War Poems Sir Andrew Motion 9781907598388
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598388Author Sir Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Candlestick PressPublisher... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571375301
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes... -
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099552659
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Think of the fortune waiting for you...July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers.The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of... -
New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571338559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial... -
Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright by Andrew Motion 9780226542447
Booksplease Price: £31.49This is a fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. When Thomas died in a penal colony in Tasmania, he left behind fragments of documents and a beguiling legend... -
Coming in to Land: Selected Poems 1975-2015 by Andrew Motion 9780062644084
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062644084Author Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319683478
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £17.06Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound... -
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan 9780701187972
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.64The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.03By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M... -
Study and Revise Literature Guide for AS/A-level: Pearson Edexcel Poems of the Decade by Richard Vardy
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £12.83Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Enable students to achieve their best grade... -
English Poetry Since 1940 by Neil Corcoran 9780582003224
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £59.09Neil Corcoran's book is a major survey and interpretation of modern British poetry since 1940, offering a wealth of insights into poets and their work and placing them in a broader context of poetic... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration Dr. Hannah Crawforth 9781350531505
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.41'These contributors are some of the best, and best-known poets writing today ... The result is a slimly elegant book of new poetry, some of it very fine indeed ... It really is extraordinary that... -
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite Gyles Brandreth 9781405944557
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the... -
Gravel in my Shoe by John Fuller 9781784740412
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63'The only peace: to know my placeAnd what I now must do,Striding with the light full in my face,And gravel in my shoe.'Bright, elemental and as dexterously brilliant as ever, John Fuller's latest...