(1952-10-26) 26 October 1952 (age 71) London, England
Spouses
Joanna Powell (div. 1983)
Jan Dalley
(m. 1985; div. 2009)
Kyeong-Soo Kim
(m. 2010)
Children
3
Education
Radley College
Alma mater
University College, Oxford
Occupation
Poet
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Sir Andrew MotionFRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.
Sir AndrewMotion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period...
2014. Motion, Andrew (1999). Keats. University of Chicago Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-226-54240-9. Motion (1998), p. 74. Motion (1998), p. 98. Motion (1997)...
the greater part of his published work. His poems are marked by what AndrewMotion calls "a very English, glum accuracy" about emotions, places, and relationships...
held the post between November 1850 and October 1892. According to AndrewMotion and Hilary Laurie, Tennyson "gave the poet laureateship new status and...
Amount of Murder.[full citation needed] Silver is a minor character in AndrewMotion's 2012 novel Silver: Return to Treasure Island, a sequel to the original...
Childhood, by AndrewMotion, The New York Times Book Review, 3 February 2008. Tom Fort, "That's quite enough poetic licence, Mr Motion", The Guardian...
Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, travel writer, and television director. He is most known as a member of the Brat...
"World in Motion..." is a song by British band New Order (performed with the England national football team, credited as ENGLANDneworder). The song is...
include Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, David Hare, Kazuo Ishiguro, AndrewMotion, Paul Muldoon, Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Sarah Waters, Geoffrey Ashe...
Frieda, and by the poets Simon Armitage, Blake Morrison, AndrewMotion and Michael Morpurgo. Motion paid tribute to Hughes as "one of the two great poets...
Hawkins, Andrew J. (2022-08-16). "Lyft and Motional's all-electric robotaxi service is now live in Las Vegas". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-08-16. "Motional and...
in the book include "Kim", "The Way I Am" and "The Real Slim Shady". AndrewMotion reviewed Angry Blonde, commenting "Such metaphorical life as his lines...
passages in Owen's letters and diaries after the death of their mother. AndrewMotion wrote of Owen's relationship with Sassoon: "On the one hand, Sassoon's...
Doris and Harry. In 2008, the poet laureate of the United Kingdom, AndrewMotion, was commissioned by the BBC West television programme Inside Out West...
compared with flowers emphasises the permanence of memory for the poet." AndrewMotion, in a piece about the enduring appeal of the poem, wrote that "the final...
Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military...
Motion sickness occurs due to a difference between actual and expected motion. Symptoms commonly include nausea, vomiting, cold sweat, headache, dizziness...
Perpetual motion is the motion of bodies that continues forever in an unperturbed system. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can...
Johanna" on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1999, Sir AndrewMotion, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, listed it as the greatest song...
[permanent dead link] Philip H.S. Torr and Andrew Zisserman: Feature Based Methods for Structure and Motion Estimation, ICCV Workshop on Vision Algorithms...
Sir AndrewMotion (The competition was suspended for this year.)[citation needed] 1st prize – Judy O'Kane, 'Tasting Notes'. Judge: Sir AndrewMotion 1st...
of England parish, and former manor near Braintree, Essex, England. AndrewMotion, a former Poet Laureate, was raised there. In 1589 the village came...
Atwood and George Szirtes. Writers such as Angela Carter, Rose Tremain, AndrewMotion, W. G. Sebald, Michèle Roberts and Patricia Duncker have also taught...