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From an extraordinary poetic career and including new and previously uncollected poems, this selection draws together work that in a variety of ways offers intimate reflections on memory and the cost of human experience.

About the Author

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. His memoir Sleeping on Islands is also published this year. He lives in Baltimore, where he is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.