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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
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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’
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15 Jul 2014: Malorie Blackman and Andrew Motion among signatories of letter to the Guardian demanding 'urgent' action from the Department for Education
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12 Jul 2014:
Summer picks from Nick Hornby, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman and others …
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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
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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
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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
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27 Oct 2013:
Ex-poet laureate says planning law reforms could lead to destruction of areas of natural beauty within UK
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26 Oct 2013:
Andrew Motion writes new poem "A Moment of Reflection" in response to Siegfried Sassoon's statement of departure from the army
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