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The Price of Everything

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Price of Everything
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sir Andrew Motion
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 128
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571169009
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 7 March 1994
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, while 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern.

Author Biography

Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward Thomas for an M. Lit. From 1976 to 1980 he taught English at the University of Hull; from 1980 to 1982 he edited the Poetry Review, and from 1982 to 1989 he was Editorial Director and Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is a member of the Arts Council of England and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Andrew Motion is the author of eight books of poems, of four biographies, including the authorized life of Philip Larkin, and of critical studies of Larkin and Edward Thomas. He has been the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and the Whitbread Prize for Biography.Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in May 1999. He lives in London with his wife and their three child