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Public Property
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 11.65In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of idylls he conjures the expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood, in scenes as precisely remembered as they are irretrievable.... more...
Selected Poems of Andrew Motion
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 18.94In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. Dramatic monologues, elegies, poems of social and political observation, love lyrics - all are part of this important poet's repertoire. Andrew Motion's concern for the extremes of human experience and the artistic integrity that insists on his... more...
The Price of Everything
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 11.65This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First World War to contemporary apocalypse. Both are remarkable additions to an important body of work. more...
The Cinder Path
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 14.57A new poetry collection from Andrew Motion - the last published in his role as Poet Laureate more...
Silver
Random House 2012; US$ 10.67Think of the fortune waiting for you. July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Isla nd is not uninhabited... more...
John Keats
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 21.86Keats is the first major biography of the poet for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal life of the Romantic genius, critically spurned and dying young. What Andrew Motion brings to bear on the subject is a deep... more...
The Poetry Of Edward Thomas
Random House 2011; US$ 17.34When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew Motion's pioneering study of Thomas' life and achievement is scholarly yet utterly... more...
Love in a Life
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 11.65Love in a Life , Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of each poem and the book as a whole. The stories of two... more...
Silver
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00This ebook includes a free copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ! A rip-roaring sequel to Treasure Island ?Robert Louis Stevenson?s beloved classic?about two young friends and their high-seas adventure with dangerous pirates and long-lost treasure. It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island... more...
Silver
Doubleday Canada 2012; US$ 19.95July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames, a young boy spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries and listening to his father's tales of adventures: on the high seas, of curses, murder and revenge, black spots and buried treasure--and of a man with a wooden leg. It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's... more...









