Selected Poems, 1976-1997

by Motion, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780571195046
• ISBN10: 0571195040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Summary

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 impact are consistent features of a career otherwise remarkable for its imaginative range and technical versatility.

Table of Contents

I	3	(16)
A Dying Race	3	(2)
In the Attic	5	(1)
Anniversaries	6	(5)
The Lines	11	(1)
Inside and Out	12	(2)
Leaving Belfast	14	(2)
Anne Frank Huis	16	(3)
II	19	(36)
The Letter	19	(2)
The Great Man	21	(2)
On Dry Land	23	(1)
Bathing at Glymenopoulo	24	(5)
From the Imperial	29	(1)
Independence	30	(18)
Dangerous Play	48	(3)
The Dancing Hippo	51	(4)
III	55	(24)
A Blow to the Head	55	(4)
Look	59	(2)
One Who Disappeared	61	(4)
The Prague Milkbottle	65	(4)
Hull	69	(2)
Missing	71	(4)
It is an Offence	75	(4)
IV Lines of Desire	79	(32)
V	111
Salt Water	111	(10)
Reading the Elephant	121	(3)
The Spoilt Child	124	(4)
Dead March	128	(2)
Does That Hurt?	130	(3)
Your Postcard Came	133	(2)
Goethe in the Park	135	(4)
To Whom It May Concern	139	(1)
Tortoise	140	(1)
On the Table	141	(1)
Hey Nonny	142	(2)
Fresh Water	144