Motion, Andrew

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study "The Lamberts" won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella "The Invention of Dr Cake" (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the "Irish Times" and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by t...