FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Andrew motion - The Untold Story

A former poet laureate and a Pulitzer winner lead TS Eliot prize shortlist

10 poets are in the running for the prestigious £25,000 prize, with collections that ‘remind us why it’s to poetry we turn to reorient ourselves’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5

Andrew Motion: ‘Wilfred Owen became a kind of sacred text for me’

The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the genius of Alexander Pope

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion; Rabbitbox by Wayne Holloway-Smith; Strange Architectures by JL Williams; I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6

Andrew Malone obituary

Other lives: Founder and chief executive of Nottingham Community Housing Association

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2023

The Drifted Stream audiobook review – Andrew Motion celebrates poetry’s rich oral tradition

David Rintoul and Shaheen Khan are among the actors who read from Motion’s anthology of British and Irish poetry, spanning from the 14th century to the present day

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2023

Philip Larkin at 100: Why the morbid curmudgeon still belongs in schools

A century after the poet’s birth, Larkin’s friend and biographer Andrew Motion talks to Kevin E G Perry about his controversial prejudices, his keen sense of mortality and why he continues to deserve a place on the national curriculum

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2022