Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.
Books in order of publication:
Poetry
Poems
1972: Goodnestone: A Sequence (in Workshop Poets No. 7). Workshop Press
1976: Inland. Cygnet Press
Collections
1978: The Pleasure Steamers. Carcanet
1981: Independence. Salamander Press
1983: Secret Narratives. Salamander Press
1984: Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984. Salamander Press / Penguin
1987: Natural Causes. Chatto & Windus
1988: Two Poems. Words Ltd
1991: Love in a Life. Faber and Faber
1994: The Price of Everything. Faber and Faber
1997: Salt Water Faber and Faber
1998: Selected Poems 1976–1997. Faber and Faber
2001: A Long Story. The Old School Press
2002: Public Property. Faber and Faber
2009: The Cinder Path. Faber and Faber
2012: The Customs House. Faber and Faber
2015: Peace Talks. Faber and Faber
2015: Coming Home. Fine Press Poetry
2017: Coming in to Land: Selected Poems, 1975–2015. Ecco Press
2018: Essex Clay. Faber and Faber
2020: Randomly Moving Particles. Faber and Faber
Criticism
1980: The Poetry of Edward Thomas. Routledge & Kegan Paul
1982: Philip Larkin. (Contemporary Writers series) Methuen
1986: Elizabeth Bishop. (Chatterton Lectures on an English Poet)
1998: Sarah Raphael: Strip!. Marlborough Fine Art (London)
2008: Ways of Life: On Places, Painters, and Poets. Faber and Faber
Biography
1986: The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit. Chatto & Windus
1993: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber
1997: Keats: A Biography. Faber and Faber
Memoirs
2006: In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood. Faber and Faber
Fiction
1989: The Pale Companion. Penguin
1991: Famous for the Creatures. Viking
2003: The Invention of Dr Cake. Faber and Faber
2000: Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (biographical novel)
2012: Silver. Jonathan Cape
2015: The New World. Crown
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