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<p> <b>Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.</b> <br> <br> <i>Sleeping on Islands</i> is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence - where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion - to the excruciations of early public appearances, to the decade he spent as Poet Laureate, promoting and ensuring the central place of poetry in a nation's chara
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- Author
- Andrew Motion
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber Classical Music & Dance
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571375318
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Personal Memoirs
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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