Sir Andrew Motion is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Peace Talks. His biography of poet Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Motion also wrote Keats: A Biography which inspired film director Jane Campion’s celebrated adaptation Bright Star in 2009. Motion has also published several collections of autobiographical prose and fiction.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and knighted in 1999, Motion served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. He is the co-founder and co- director of the Poetry Archive (UK) and Poetry by Heart. His other honors include the Arvon Observer Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, among many others.
He currently teaches at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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Monday, May 09, 2016 7:30PM
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Sir Andrew Motion is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Peace Talks. His biography of poet Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Motion also wrote Keats: A Biography which inspired film director Jane Campion’s celebrated adaptation Bright Star in 2009. Motion has also published several collections of autobiographical prose and fiction.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and knighted in 1999, Motion served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. He is the co-founder and co- director of the Poetry Archive (UK) and Poetry by Heart. His other honors include the Arvon Observer Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, among many others.
He currently teaches at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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