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Essex Clay by Andrew Motion
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to familial love' (Independent). Now, twelve years later and three years after moving to live and work in the United States, Motion looks back once more to recrea ...Show more
In the Blood : A memoir of my childhood by Andrew Motion
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
"In the Blood" is Andrew Motion's beautifully written memoir of growing up in post-war England - an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life and country life. It also tells the story of how these worlds are shattered, when his mother suffers a terrible riding accident. The tragedy shadows the ...Show more
Keats by Andrew Motion
$39.99 NZD
Category: No Category
The outline of the story of John Keats's life is well known: the archetypal life of the Romantic genius, critically spurned and dying young. This biography aims to enrich the facts with an understanding of how Keats fitted into the intellectual and political life of his time. It includes detailed examin ...Show more
Poetry by Heart - A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Andrew Motion (Introduction)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by Heart is an essential collection of over 200 poems, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson, from Christ ...Show more
Poetry by Heart: Poems for Learning and Reciting by Andrew Motion
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart. "The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking". (Simon Armitage). Two years ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, ...Show more
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Andrew Motion
$45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Andrew 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 a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, ...Show more
The Customs House by Andrew Motion
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent ...Show more
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