Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in
2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and
elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and
a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and
in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and
citizens. The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems
both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its
inevitabilities. Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of
the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the
contiguous worlds of prose; poems which elicit the parallel lives
glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and
weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach). An unemphatic
evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies,
alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and
the collection ends with a remarkable group of directly
autobiographical poems about the life and times of the poet's
father.
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