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Keats by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.47First 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... -
Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Andrew 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Love 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... -
Philip Larkin by Sir Andrew Motion
Booksplease Price: €69.57Philip 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 Price of Everything by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Salt 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Andrew 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... -
The Cinder Path by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Andrew 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The 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... -
Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Public 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... -
The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94What 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: Poems by Andrew Motion
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.45Randomly 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... -
Randomly Moving Particles by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Randomly 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13THE 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... -
Gravity Archives Sir Andrew Motion 9780571395972
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motion's new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.26Andrew 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Randomly 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... -
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47Philip 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,... -
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.47'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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'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... -
Bedford Square: 5 by Sir Andrew Motion 9781908742063
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ten War Poems Sir Andrew Motion 9781907598388
RRP: €8.27Booksplease Price: €6.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598388Author Sir Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint < -
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Keats by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571172283 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €3.86Keats is 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 story is well known - has... -
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099552659
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.45Think 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... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571375301
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Andrew 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... -
New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571338559
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51This 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: €37.58This 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062644084Author Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
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Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571170654 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €3.25'An exemplary biography of its kind - detailed, meticulous and sympathetic.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion -... -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319683478
RRP: €23.21Booksplease Price: €16.36Ian 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: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.93The 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 9781529028850
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Erudite 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
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Erudite 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: €24.99Booksplease Price: €20.48By 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... -
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Study and Revise Literature Guide for AS/A-level: Pearson Edexcel Poems of the Decade by Richard Vardy 9781510452695 [USED COPY]
RRP: €16.07Booksplease Price: €5.12Exam 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... -
Study and Revise Literature Guide for AS/A-level: Pearson Edexcel Poems of the Decade by Richard Vardy
RRP: €16.07Booksplease Price: €15.27Exam 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
Booksplease Price: €73.01Neil 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64**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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.15'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...