Philip Larkin

A Writer's Life

Sir Andrew Motion

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Faber & Faber
26 September 2018

Biography; Biography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Reissue of prizewinning biography of Larkin by his literary executor and close friend, former poet laureate Andrew Motion - with new jacket and introduction.

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author, this edition offers an engrossing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and most private, poets.

'There will be other lives of Larkin, but Motion's, like Forster's of Dickens, will always have a special place.' - John Carey, Sunday Times

'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has written an equally exemplary 'Life' of him.' - Peter Conrad, Observer

'Honest but not prurient, critical but also compassionate, Motion's book could not be bettered.' - Alan Bennett, London Review of Books

By: Sir Andrew Motion
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 641g
ISBN: 9780571346677
ISBN 10: 0571346677
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 26 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive; in 2015 he was appointed a Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including most recently the Ted Hughes Award (2015), and has published four celebrated biographies, a novella, The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) and a memoir, In the Blood (2006). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. He lives in Baltimore.

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Philip Larkin

A Writer's Life

Sir Andrew Motion

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