Andrew Motion

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  The New World – Andrew Motion's second Treasure Island sequel

  17 Oct 2014: With his followup to Silver, the former poet laureate has written a deeply felt and sincere homage to Robert Louis Stevenson. By Carol Birch

• Giving a musical voice to war’s unsung victims

  16 Oct 2014: Andrew Motion: Composer Sally Beamish has turned one of Andrew Motion’s war poems into a new oratorio. The former poet laureate explains their tribute to the ‘damaged living’

• Door into the Dark opened the portals to a different future

  17 Aug 2014: Andrew Motion: A book that changed me: How the ‘slap and squelch’ of Seamus Heaney’s poems propelled me into verse

• Scores of authors lobby government to act on school libraries

  15 Jul 2014: Malorie Blackman and Andrew Motion among signatories of letter to the Guardian demanding 'urgent' action from the Department for Education

• Best holiday reads 2014 - top authors recommend their favourites

  12 Jul 2014:

  Summer picks from Nick Hornby, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman and others …

• Hear great poets of the past via the Poetry Archive

  6 Jul 2014:

  Thanks to the recently relaunched Poetry Archive, you can listen to the likes of Tennyson and Sylvia Plath reading their own verse, writes Anna Baddeley

• Rosemary Tonks, the lost poet

  31 May 2014:

  Rosemary Tonks was a feted poet, trenchant reviewer and literary socialite. And then she 'disappeared'. Following her death last month, Neil Astley traces her extraordinary story

• The Poetry Archive makes itself new

  28 May 2014: Andrew Motion: A decade ago we invented a great new online resource for poetry lovers. Mellifluous new bells and whistles have just made it even greater

• Artists come together to commemorate centenary of outbreak of first world war

  27 Mar 2014: Stephen Fry joins letter-writing project, with his missive to soldier read aloud to crowd at launch of programme of cultural events

• Top writers draw foxes - in pictures

  Gallery (10 pictures), 18 Feb 2014:

  To raise money for Great Ormond Street hospital – the readers' quarterly Slightly Foxed asked writers including Carol Ann Duffy and Kazuo Ishiguro to draw a fox. Here are some of the wily creatures they came up with …

• Writers and critics on the best books of 2013

  23 Nov 2013:

  Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this year

• Poetry Library celebrates 60th birthday

  29 Oct 2013:

  Much-loved London resource draws chorus of praise – and cake – on its anniversary

• Sir Andrew Motion attacks ministers over threat to parks and countryside

  27 Oct 2013:

  Ex-poet laureate says planning law reforms could lead to destruction of areas of natural beauty within UK

• Poems on war: Andrew Motion is inspired by Siegfried Sassoon

  26 Oct 2013:

  Andrew Motion writes new poem "A Moment of Reflection" in response to Siegfried Sassoon's statement of departure from the army

• Tony Robinson returns to the stage

  3 Oct 2013: Recently knighted Blackadder star will narrate The Wind in the Willows in Royal Opera's West End transfer

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