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Andrew Motion

Books by this author: The Pleasure Steamers
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  • 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.
    Praise for Andrew Motion 'no one will fail to admire the poet's outstanding talent and superb craft'
    Birmingham Post
    'The Pleasure Steamers is an impressive book.'
    Times Literary Supplement
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