Here to Eternity

Andrew Motion

Here To Eternity in a beautiful repackage of this wonderfully accessible selection chosen by former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571228287
Date Published
16.02.2012
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Summary

A 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 section seeks out resemblances and echoes elsewhere, creating the impression of an expanding universe, from Wallace Stevens to Stevie Smith, Joseph Brodsky to Jo Shapcott, Bob Dylan to Dylan Thomas, Ben Jonson to Benjamin Zephaniah…

AndrewMotion

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.…

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