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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit

Product Description: A story of three generations destroyed by drink, drugs and bohemian life. George Lambert served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and became Australia's leading painter. His son Constant founded the Sadlers Wells ballet, and Kit Lambert managed the pop group, The Who, and was murdered...read more

By Andrew Motion

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9780374182830 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A story of three generations destroyed by drink, drugs and bohemian life.

Natural Causes

By Andrew Motion

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9780701132712 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

The Poetry of Edward Thomas

By Andrew Motion

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9780701208950 | Hogarth Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $17.95

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

Product Description: "Mr. Motion has generously enlarged our understanding of . . . this impressive writer's life. He is a clear, fluent writer; evocative, acute, sympathetic, but absolutely unblinking about the notorious weaknesses and cruelties (as well as the immense wit and hard work) of his subject...read more

By Andrew Motion

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9780374231682, titled "Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1993, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the life and work of the popular, yet reclusive, twentieth century English poet

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9780374524074, titled "Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life" | Noonday Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "Mr.

Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

By Andrew Motion (editor)

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9780460874588 | Everymans Library, August 1, 1994, cover price $7.50

New Writing 3

Product Description: A collection of English writing, from both new and established names, which encompasses poetry, stories, essays and previews of work in progress. The contributors includes A.S. Byatt, Lesley Glaister, Barry Unsworth, R.S. Thomas, Andrew Motion, Candice Rodd, Hilary Mandel and Peter Redgrove...read more

By Andrew Motion and Candice Rodd (editor)

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9780749397487 | Reprint edition (Heinemann, October 1, 1994), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collection of English writing, from both new and established names, which encompasses poetry, stories, essays and previews of work in progress.

The Price of Everything

By Andrew Motion

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9780571169009 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 1995, cover price $11.95

Salt Water

Product Description: The latest collection from one of our finest narrative and lyrical poets. The new verse of Andrew Morton bears a strong Romantic imprint, with Keats, Shelley, Goethe and Napoleon making specific appearances throughout the course of the book. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Andrew Motion

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9780571190195 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The latest collection from one of our finest narrative and lyrical poets.

Keats

Examines the short life of nineteenth-century English poet John Keats, stressing the political and social influences that shaped his world and his literature

By Andrew Motion

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9780374181000 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the short life of nineteenth-century English poet John Keats, stressing the political and social influences that shaped his world and his literature

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9780226542409 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 1999, cover price $20.00

Selected Poems 1976-1997

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By Andrew Motion

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9780571195046 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1999, cover price $16.95

Verses of the Poets Laureate: From John Dryden to Andrew Motion

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By Hilary Laurie (editor) and Andrew Motion (introduced by)

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9780752818597 | Orion Pub Co, September 1, 1999, cover price $17.99

Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confession of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

The life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, a minor London litterateur, con man, and painter from the Regency era, is reconstructed here, revealing a con artist in search of respectability. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Andrew Motion

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9780375402098 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Fictionally chronicles the life of the nineteenth century painter, writer, London dandy, forger, and murderer who was friends with all the major figures of the Romantic era and died alone in the penal colony in Tasmania.

Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry

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By Andrew Motion (foreword by), Alan Michael Parker (editor) and Mark Willhardt (editor)

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9780415163552 | Routledge, February 1, 2001, cover price $135.00

Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

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By Andrew Motion

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9780226542447 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $26.00

Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry

Contains profiles and critical analysis of the works for over nine hundred twentieth century poets.

By Andrew Motion (foreword by), Alan Michael Parker (editor) and Mark Willhardt (editor)

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9780415163569 | Routledge, January 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Contains profiles and critical analysis of the works for over nine hundred twentieth century poets.

Miscellaneous:

9780203991992 | Routledge, October 25, 2002, cover price $21.95

Fugitive Poems

By John Keats and Andrew Motion (foreword by)

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9781843910770 | Hesperus Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $15.95

Interrupted Lives

Product Description: An original look at the literary reputations of some of our greatest writers whose lives and careers were cut short.

By Andrew Motion (editor)

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9781855143494 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, September 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An original look at the literary reputations of some of our greatest writers whose lives and careers were cut short.

G F Watts Portraits: Fame & Beauty In Victorian Society

Product Description: Accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from October 14, 2004 - January 9, 2005.

By Barbara Bryant and Andrew Motion (foreword by)

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9781855143470 | Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns, February 1, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from October 14, 2004 - January 9, 2005.

Commonplace

By Andrew Motion (foreword by) and Christina Georgina Rossetti

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9781843911197 | Hesperus Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $13.95

Bedford Square 2: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

The second anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series featuring the very best in young British writing

By Andrew Motion (foreword by)

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9780719568237 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, January 1, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The second anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series featuring the very best in young British writing

Collins Rhyming Dictionary

Presents an accessible way to find the rhyme or satiric lyric you need. This dictionary groups together the most satisfactory rhymes, taking stress and vowel assonance into account. It also contains an index that helps you jump straight to the word you're looking for, and various panels include examples of rhyme in action.

By Andrew Motion (foreword by)

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9780007209965 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 1, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents an accessible way to find needed rhymes or satiric lyrics, with an index which guides readers to the most suitable group of rhyming words, and to related groups which take into account rhyming words which have the same number of syllables or thesame rhythm.

After the War

By Andrew Motion

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9780571223787 | Gardners Books, December 31, 2007, cover price $13.15

Bedford Square 3: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

The third anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series featuring the very best in young British writing

By Andrew Motion (editor)

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9780719523519 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, January 10, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The third anthology in the brilliant Bedford Square series featuring the very best in young British writing

Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry

Product Description: When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had been published, but he is now recognised as one of the finest and most influential poets of the last century. Although often referred to as Âa poetâs poetâ, his writing has an almost universal appeal...read more

By Guy Cuthbertson (editor), Michael Longley (other contributor), Andrew Motion (foreword by) and Lucy Newlyn (editor)

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9781904634355 | Enitharmon Pr, April 15, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had been published, but he is now recognised as one of the finest and most influential poets of the last century.

Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems

Product Description: On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundation?s Neglected Masters Award. The award brings renewed critical attention to the life's work of a significant but under-recognized American poet...read more

By Andrew Motion (editor) and Anne Stevenson

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9781598530193 | Library of America, April 17, 2008, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: On October 3rd, 2007 Anne Stevenson was named the second recipient of the Poetry Foundation?

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