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    Sleeping on Islands

    Sir Andrew Motion

    A tender, revelatory memoir featuring many of the major figures in British poetry, from a former Poet Laureate.

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    Sleeping on Islands

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career.

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    New and Selected Poems 1977-2022

    Sir Andrew Motion

    From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this selection draws together work that in a variety of ways offers intimate reflections on memory and the…

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    The Cinder Path

    Sir Andrew Motion

    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…

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    Randomly Moving Particles

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages…

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    Randomly Moving Particles

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages…

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    Love in a Life

    Sir Andrew Motion

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

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    Essex Clay

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Andrew Motion’s prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love.

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    In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

    Sir Andrew Motion

    A beautifully written memoir touchingly recounting a country childhood shattered by a mother’s terrible riding accident.

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    Public Property

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Public Property was Andrew Motion’s first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. The final section of the book contains a number of elegies and love poems, written in…

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    Salt Water

    Sir Andrew Motion

    From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchioness, to the vivid prose meditation of the second part, written…

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    William Barnes

    Sir Andrew Motion,Sir Andrew Motion

    William Barnes was born in 1801 near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, of a farming family. He learned Greek, Latin and Music, taught himself wood-engraving, and in 1823 became a schoolmaster…

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    Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Reissue of prizewinning biography of Larkin by his literary executor and close friend, former poet laureate Andrew Motion - with new jacket and introduction.

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    Keats

    Sir Andrew Motion

    Newly jacketed reissue of Andrew Motion’s celebrated biography of one of England’s best-loved poets, John Keats.

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    Ten War Poems

    Ten poems about war selected and introduced by Andrew Motion.

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    John Keats

    John Keats

    This new selection of John Keats’s poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.

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    John Keats

    John Keats

    In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past

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    Home Country

    Richard Mabey,Sir Andrew Motion

    Home Country is a classic memoir by Britain’s most popular nature writer.

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    Collected Poems

    Sir John Betjeman

    Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough. The cabbages are coming now; The earth exhales. –from Slough

    When the beloved English poet John…

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    The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. by Sir Isaac Newton. Translated Into English by Andrew Motte. to Which Are Added, the Laws of the Moon’s Motion, According to Gravity. by John Machin … in Two Volumes. Volume 1 of 2

    Isaac Newton, Sir

    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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    The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. By Sir Isaac Newton. Translated Into English by Andrew Motte. To Which are Added, The Laws of the Moon’s Motion, According to Gravity. By John Machin … In two Volumes. of 2; Volume 1

    Isaac Newton

    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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