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  • Poetry by Heart

    Poems for Learning and Reciting

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon ArmitageTwo years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Coming in to Land

    Selected Poems 1975-2015

    by Andrew Motion ...
    From England’s former Poet Laureate, a collection of selected poetry spanning his celebrated career, presented for the first time by an American publisherAndrew Motion has said, “I want my writing to be as clear as water. I want readers to see all the way through its surfaces into the swamp." Though the territory of his exploration may be murky and mired—the front lines of war, political ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Silver

    by Andrew Motion ...
    July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames, a young boy spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries and listening to his father's tales of adventures: on the high seas, of curses, murder and revenge, black spots and buried treasure--and of a man with a wooden leg.It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn ... Read more

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  • The New World

    by Andrew Motion ...
    The breathtaking new novel about unexpected adventure from Andrew Motion, internationally acclaimed author of Silver.Washed ashore after a harrowing shipwreck, English seafarers Jim and Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast in Texas. Their ship, the Nightingale, has been destroyed, and to Jim and Natty's horror, only one other survivor remains. But the shocked and grief-stricken duo ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Lamberts

    George, Constant and Kit

    by Andrew Motion ...
    'A bald summary does no justice to the subtlety and exceptional lucidity of a book which turns the bland, familiar, intrinsically worthy stuff of so many fictional family sagas into a biographical triumph.' Observer'Motion has given us an exemplary piece of research, and a comparison of three eras that is of compelling interest, not least in showing what damage one generation does to the next.' ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Selected Poems of Andrew Motion

    by Andrew Motion ...
    In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. Dramatic monologues, elegies, poems of social and political observation, love lyrics - all are part of this important poet's repertoire. Andrew Motion's concern for the extremes of human experience and the artistic integrity that insists on his addressing the reader with maximum clarity and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Silver

    Return to Treasure Island

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Narrated by David Tennant ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 33 min

    In the eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Late one night, a mysterious girl named Natty arrives on the river with a request for Jim from her father - Long John Silver. Aged and weak, but still possessing a strange power, the pirate proposes Jim and Natty sail to Treasure Island in search of Captain Flint's hidden bounty. But the thrill of the ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Price of Everything

    by Andrew Motion ...
    This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical pattern reaching from the First World War to contemporary apocalypse. Both are remarkable additions to an important body of work. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Public Property

    by Andrew Motion ...
    In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of idylls he conjures the expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood, in scenes as precisely remembered as they are irretrievable. Elsewhere he reconsiders moments from the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Randomly Moving Particles

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration, and current British and American politics. It is a clarifying action and reaction between terra and solar system, mundanity and possibility ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Poetry Of Edward Thomas

    by Andrew Motion ...
    When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet. Yet in the two years before his death, after a lifetime writing prose, Thomas wrote some of the most enduring poems of his day: poems of war, nature, friendship, despair and exultation. Andrew Motion's pioneering study of Thomas' life and achievement is scholarly yet utterly absorbing, combining an account of his ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Book of Elegy

    Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation

    by Prof Stephen Regan, Andrew Motion ...
    'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month)'If you have any weakness at all for poetry, this book will draw you in, then devastate you' Susie Goldsbrough. The TimesElegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD