Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also
his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric
skills for which he is well-known, combining intense personal
concerns with themes which are more expansive and social. Family
and loved ones appear in the company of historical and legendary
figures; private dramas raise large general issues. But there is
concentration as well as diversity. From the Orford Merman of the
title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the
Marchioness, to the vivid prose meditation of the second part,
written when Andrew Motion retraced the voyage that John Keats made
by sea from London to Naples in the autumn of 1820, the book
insistently and brilliantly elaborates images of water. It is the
element which facilitates a rich interweaving of past and present,
of re-enacted experience and the poignant suspension of the
lived-in moment.
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