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The Customs House
Sir Andrew Motion
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Description for The Customs House
Paperback. Tells a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This title includes poems that are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the poems are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. The poems combine understatement with a clear-eyed ... Read more
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571288113
SKU
V9780571288113
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99-99
About Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. His most most recent collection of poems, The Cinder Path (2009), was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. The author of several biographies, his authorised life of Philip Larkin (1993) won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. He has published a novella, The ... Read more
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