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The Pleasure Steamers
Andrew Motion
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Description for The Pleasure Steamers
paperback. "The Pleasure Steamers" is Andrew Motion's first collection of poems. Formally adventurous, in the way his work has continued to be, the collection explores relationships, geographies and the legacy of the past to the present. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 214 x 5. Weight in Grams: 104. From the library of Gerard Fanning. With two (2) MS letters from Motion to Fanning in which the subsequent poet laureate discusses providing a poem for publishing in Fanning's next broadsheet, and also discusses Motion's new collection 'The Pleasure Steamers' (this title), both letters dated September 1978, on University of Hull letterhead, Fanning has made MS notes on the later letter. Signed and dated by Fanning on half title. Good clean copy. Covers showing light age and shelf wear, lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very nice copy
"The Pleasure Steamers" is Andrew Motion's first collection of poems. Formally adventurous, in the way his work has continued to be, the collection explores relationships, geographies and the legacy of the past to the present. Long sequences such as "Inland" and "Anniversaries" are interspersed with short, sharp lyrics which display the control, flare and delicacy which are the hallmarks of the Poet Laureate.
"The Pleasure Steamers" is Andrew Motion's first collection of poems. Formally adventurous, in the way his work has continued to be, the collection explores relationships, geographies and the legacy of the past to the present. Long sequences such as "Inland" and "Anniversaries" are interspersed with short, sharp lyrics which display the control, flare and delicacy which are the hallmarks of the Poet Laureate.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd Manchester
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856352478
SKU
KSG0030169
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Ref
99-1
About Andrew Motion
ANDREW MOTION was born in 1952. Educated at University College, Oxford, he has taught at various universities including Hull, where he met Philip Larkin, later the subject of his prize-winning biography. He is now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, biographer, poet, critic and Poet Laureate.
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