Saturday, 11 December 2010

ANDREW MOTION TALKS ABOUT HIS YEARS AS POET LAUREATE.


Students may be interested to hear Andrew Motion discuss his time as poet laureate and offer his views about poetry and some of the poets who have influenced his own writing and thinking. Motion is responsible for founding the poetrey archive which is an INCREDIBLE resource for any human being with a beating heart and an interest in the power of words.

Click on link to hear a 30 minute BBC Radio 4 documentary first broadcast in April 2009:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jh474

Motion recently gave a very emotional lecture at Hull University about his relationship with Big Phil Larkin and Be Curious have an audio version of the lecture. See MLR if you want an audio copy of the lecture.

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