Sir Andrew Motion at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, in partnership with Shropshire Libraries and Poetry on Loan
Shropshire Libraries are delighted to invite you to an evening with Sir Andrew Motion on Friday 8 June 2018 at 7.30pm at Ludlow Assembly Rooms. To book follow the link to Ludlow Assembly Rooms.
Sir Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion’s prose memoir, In the Blood (2006), was widely acclaimed, praised as “an act of magical retrieval” (Daily Telegraph) and “a hymn to familial love” (Independent). Now having left the UK’s shores, Motion looks back once more to recreate a stunning biographical sequel but this time, in verse.
Essex Clay – Andrew Motion
“Essex Clay” rekindles, expands and gives a tragic resonance to subjects that have haunted Motion throughout his writing life. The poem’s wealth of physical detail and its narrative momentum make it as compelling as a fast-paced novel: a settling of accounts which admits that final resolutions are impossible.
Lezley Picton, Shropshire Council’s Cabinet member for culture and leisure, said:
“Thanks to the funding and creative input from Poetry on Loan, Shropshire Libraries are able to promote contemporary poetry across Shropshire while working with partners. By working with Ludlow Assembly Rooms, we are able to host big names like Brian Patten, Tony Walsh and now Sir Andrew Motion. This will be an unforgettable event, so get your ticket early.”
Helen Hughes, CEO of Ludlow Assembly Rooms, said:
“We’re very excited that the highly acclaimed Sir Andrew Motion is coming to Ludlow as part of his short tour to the UK. This event is another example of the deepening and fruitful partnership that Ludlow Assembly Rooms and Shropshire Libraries has established and, together with Poetry on Loan, allows us to bring you the very best that is on offer.”
Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive; in 2015 he was appointed a Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including most recently the Ted Hughes Award (2015), and has published four celebrated biographies, a novella, The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) and the memoir, In the Blood (2006). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009.
Poetry on Loan
Recent books are a Poetry By Heart anthology and The New World, second in his Treasure Island trilogy. His long poem An Equal Voice is the text of a new war requiem, written by Sally Beamish and commissioned by the LSO. He was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England until 2016.
Related links:
www.andrewmotion.co.uk @motionandrew www.faber.co.uk
Poetry on Loan – http://www.poetryonloan.org.uk/
Shropshire Libraries – http://shropshire.gov.uk/libraries
