Biography
1976 foremost published poetry 1976 - 1980 taught English at a University of Hull 1980 - 1982 edited a Poetry Review 1981 wins Arvon international poetry competition with The Letter 1982 edits, by owning Blake Morrison, the Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry 1982 - 1989 Editorial Director & Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus 1986 A Lamberts wins a Somerset Maugham Award 1989- Professor of Originative Writing at a University of East Anglia 1994 Philip Larkin: The Writer’s Life wins a Whitbread Prize for Biography 1999 appointed when Poet Laureate for 10 years only 2003 appointed Prof of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London

Raised inside Stisted touching Braintree in Essex, he was educated at Radley College. Whenever he was Xvi, his mother experienced the awheel accident & spent the next x years within & away from a coma prior to she died. In the period of this period, he understand English at University College, Oxford and studied a poetry of Edward Thomas for his MLitt. degree. Motion has said that he tried to keep his memory of his mother alive across poetry.

Andrew Motion occurs as member of the Arts Council of England and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Beside a prizes mentioned above, he has won a Arvon/Observer Prize, a John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Publications
Names is non complete, needs function... The Pleasure Steamers (1978) poetry 1986 Elizabeth Bishop (Chattertin Lectures on an English Poet) Natural Is the causal agent of (1987) poetry 1988 Philip Larkin (Contemporary Writers) The Blench Companion (1989). fiction 1992 Notable for the Creatures 1993 Philip Larkin: The Writer's Life (life) 1995 A Lamberts: George, Constant & Kit (life history) ? Goodnestone : the sequence 1995 A Price of Everything Salt A lake (1997) poetry 1998 Keats (life) 1998 Choose 20 1998 Sarah Raphael: Strip! 1999 Selected Verse form 1976-1997 1999 Babel 2000 Wainewright a Poisoner: A Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (biographic novel) 2002 Public Property (poetry) 2003 A Invention of Dr Cake 2005 Spring Wedding (verse form around honor of the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles)

Dates indecipherable... Independence Secret narratives Dangerous play : verse form, 1974-1984 Love within the life Firsthand

Emended works / Introductions Thomas Healthy: Selected Verse form (Everyman Library) (Editor) 1994 Future Writing Three by Andrew Motion, Candice Rodd (Editor) (reprinted '94) 1981 Poetry of Edward Thomas Verses of the Poets Laureate: From either John Dryden to Andrew Motion by Hilary Laurie (Compiler), Andrew Motion (Introduction) (Paperback book - September 1999) 1982 A Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry by Ed. Blake Morrison & Andrew Motion 1981 Selected Verse form: William Barnes (Penguin Classics) Andrew Motion (Editor) Here to Eternity: An Anthology of Poetry by Andrew Motion (Editor) Paper Scissors Stone: Freshly Writing from either a MA inside Originative Writing at UEA by Andrew Motion (Introduction) (Paperback) May Anthology 2002 Poetry & Prose by Andrew Motion (Editor), Nick Cave (Editor) (Soft-cover) The Originative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Part Advice & Exercises for Fiction & Poetry by Julia Bell (Editor), Andrew Motion (Paperback)