His collections of poetry include Love in a Life, The Price of Everything and Salt Water. The 47-year-old has published two novels - The Pale Companion in 1989 and Famous for the Creatures in 1991 - and seven volumes of poetry. He left Hull in 1980 to became editor of Poetry Review, then in 1982 was appointed poetry editor and editorial director of publisher Chatto and Windus. He also published a biography of Keats in 1997. It was while teaching there that he met poet Philip Larkin, his biography of whom, A Writer's Life, won him the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1994.Īnother of his biographies, The Lamberts, won the Somerset Maughan Award when it was first published in 1986. He went on to become an English lecturer at Hull University in 1976 where, at the age of just 24, he had his first volume of poetry published.
Professor Motion gained a first-class degree after reading English at University College, Oxford.
He made his reputation as a respected biographer and poet long before he became Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1995.Īnd he has shown he can capture - and be inspired by - the public mood after being moved to verse to mark the funeral of Diana, Princess Of Wales, in 1997.īorn in London in 1952, where he still lives, he was originally inspired to write poetry when reading the work of Thomas Hardy. New Poet Laureate Andrew Motion emerged as front-runner for the post as a trusted and respected pair of hands almost immediately it became vacant.
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