Pleasure Steamers

Motion Andrew

Former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion's first collection of poems was published by Carcanet more than thirty years ago, in 1978. Its subjects are politics, relationships, geographies and the inescapable legacies of the past. The sequences "Inland" and "Anniversaries" stand alongside sharp lyrics which display control, delicacy and flare, hallmarks of the work of the poet from the very beginning. Even then he was recognised as: "among the most gifted of younger English poets" – Anne Stevenson, Listener

About the Author

Andrew Motion was born in 1952. Educated at University College, Oxford, he has taught at various universities including Hull, where he met Philip Larkin, later the subject of his prize-winning biography. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, biographer, poet, critic and former Poet Laureate.

Reviews

"'The Pleasure Steamers' is an impressive book" – Times Literary Supplement

"No one will fail to admire the poet's outstanding talent and superb craft" – Birmingham Post

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