Andrew Motion

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they…

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger…

I’m not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries…

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things…

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the…

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs…

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional…

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m…

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – it’s…

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding…

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of ‘difficult…