LATITUDE FESTIVAL
Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th July
HENHAM PARK, SOUTHWOLD,
SUNRISE COAST, SUFFOLK
Andrew Motion
Poetry Arena
Saturday 18th July, 2009Professor, novelist, biographer and current Poet Laureate Andrew Motion makes a fantastic addition to the Poetry Arena with readings from his recent collection ‘The Cinder Path’ and a collection of essays ‘Ways Of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets’.
Motion’s wealth of work has won many awards including: the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for his poem 'Inland'; The Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for ‘Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984’; the Dylan Thomas Award for ‘Natural Causes’ (1987); as well as winning the Whitbread Biography Award for his biographical novel ‘Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life’ (1993).
The Guardian were quoted as saying “Motion is a beautiful lyricist unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them.”
