Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken po...

The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through ...

The story of the three Lamberts is as cruel and horrifying as any Greek tragedy... This title pre...

Think of the fortune waiting for you...July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daugh...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of...

Ten War Poems

On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Neg...

First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism f...

From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchi...

Histories Real and Imagined Collide with Present-Day Perceptions to Create a Richly Layered Portr...

'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, int...

Despair over human impermanence and the desire to preserve what has been known and felt, even gri...

A verse memoir from the former poet laureate giving tragic resonance to the subjects and the pers...

In Motion's new collection, real and imagined histories converge to present a complex portrait of...

About his poetry, Motion has observed: 'I want my writing to be as clear as water. No ornate lang...

Home Country is a Chiltern memoir, from childhood dens to explorations on the fringes of London.

Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the wo...

William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learne...

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft ...

A verse memoir from the former poet laureate giving tragic resonance to the subjects and the pers...

Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected...

Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on I...

From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this sele...

Waders

Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on I...

'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarl...

'Who can think of a pirate without conjuring up the image of Long John Silver?' Daily MailWhen yo...