Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist and a biographer who was honoured with Poet Laureate. His poems are known for the insightful way in which they explore loss and desolation.

He was born in 1952 in Essex. His mother died when he was 17 years old. He studied in University college, Oxford and studied the poetry of Edward Thomas.

In 1975, he won the Newdigate prize for Oxford undergraduate poetry. Later, he worked as an English teacher. He taught in University of Hull. In 1989, he worked as the professor of Creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and later in the University of London.

Motion published a number of poetry which brought him much credit and reputation. Some of them are “The Pleasure Streamers”(1978), “Independence” (1981), “Natural Causes” (1987), “Salt Water” (1997). In 2005, he wrote the famous “Spring wedding” to celebrate the wedding, of prince of Wales. In 2003, he wrote another poem, a milestone in his poetry, “Regime change” to protest the invasion of Iraq.