Andrew Motion, (born 26 October 1952) is an English writer, of novels, of criticism, of poetry and biography. In his memoirs, In the blood: a memoir of my childhood
(2006) Motion recounts how, as a boy, his parents had moved to a dilapidated house which needed much work, It had been occupied by a rector whose cat had left everything smelling of piss, and, in the back garden a path, "with cat hair wriggled into the clover heads."
Motion served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009, a post to which he was appointed on May 1, 1999.. He received an honorary knighthood in 2009. History may remember him best for having moved gracefully among those of genius.
(2006) Motion recounts how, as a boy, his parents had moved to a dilapidated house which needed much work, It had been occupied by a rector whose cat had left everything smelling of piss, and, in the back garden a path, "with cat hair wriggled into the clover heads."Motion served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009, a post to which he was appointed on May 1, 1999.. He received an honorary knighthood in 2009. History may remember him best for having moved gracefully among those of genius.
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