The MowerAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 19 March 2009
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This selection, chosen by Andrew Motion himself from three decades of work, is an outstanding representation of the British poetâ?Ts varied body of workâ?"elegies, sonnets, poems of social and political observation, and unsentimental poems about childhood, post-war England, the natural world. About his poetry, Motion has observed: â?oI want my writing to be as clear as water. No ornate language; very few obvious tricks. I want readers to be able to see all the way down through its surfaces into the swamp. I want them to feel theyâ?Tre in a world they thought they knew, but which turns out to be stranger, more charged, more disturbed than they realized. In truth, creating this world is a more theatrical operation than the writing admits, and itâ?Ts this discretion about strong feeling, and strong feeling itself, which keeps drawing me back to the writers I most admire: Wordsworth, Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin.â??A significant and consistent feature of Motionâ?Ts work, throughout his shifts in style and changes in imaginative topographies, is his signature clarity of observation, his unwillingness to sacrifice intelligibility or embrace opacity. â?oThe best poems,â?? Motion has said, â?oare those which speak to us about the important things in our lives in a way that we never forget.â??
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