His most recent collection of poems, Public Property, was published in September 2002, and a new short novel, The Invention of Dr Cake, which combines elements of mystery and detective fiction with a love story, is forthcoming in 2003. Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. His poetry collections include Independence (1981) Secret Narratives (1983) Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984 (1984), which won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Natural Causes (1987), which won the Dylan Thomas Award The Price of Everything (1994) Salt Water (1997) and Selected Poems 1976-1997 (1998).Īndrew Motion is also the author of several acclaimed biographies including The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit (1986), which won a Somerset Maugham Award Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (1993), which won the Whitbread Biography Award a life of John Keats published in 1997 and Wainewright the Poisoner (2000), an account of the life of Thomas Wainewright, critic, forger, painter and suspected murderer.Īndrew Motion lives in London with his wife and their three children. He was awarded the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for his poem ‘Inland’, included in his first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers, published in 1977. An acclaimed poet (and champion of poetry), critic, biographer and lecturer, Andrew Motion became Poet Laureate in 1999 succeeding Ted Hughes. He has been Chairman of the Arts Council of England’s Literature Panel since 1996.

He succeeded Malcolm Bradbury as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was editor of Poetry Review (1981-83) and was Poetry Editor and Editorial Director at London publishers Chatto & Windus (1983-89). He taught English at the University of Hull (1976-81) where he met the poet Philip Larkin. Andrew Motion The Philip Larkin Society Andrew Motion Reference Back November 2010 Nomination: Reference Back 21 August 1955. Professor Andrew Motion was born in London on 26 October 1952, and read English at University College, Oxford.

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