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Love in a Life

Andrew Motion

Motion’s sixth poetry collection – a profound and tender exploration of ‘marriage’ – reissued as part of the poetry typographic series.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571356027
Date Published
19.09.2019
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Summary

Love 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 Motion’s distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poem and the book as a whole. The stories of two marriages gradually emerge, like chapters in a narrative, and are themselves bound to more public material, so that each lends profound resonances to the other.

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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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