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Public Property (Paperback)

by Andrew Motion (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (16 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571215343
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571215348
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 122,060 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Motion is a beautiful lyricist, unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them.' Robert Potts, Guardian


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This collection moves between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In a series of elegiac idylls, Motion conjures expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood - in scenes as precisely imagined as they are irretrievable - and reconsiders moments of the Victorian past from reticent and surprising angles. There are poems for vanished friends and public figures alike, variously expressed in lyric forms both extended and compact, provoking that most sensitive of concerns: what should we make public, what should be made public of us?
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3.0 out of 5 stars Public Property, 9 Jan 2004
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Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate) and Simon Armitage (Millenium Dome poet, numerous other grant-funded operations) are perhaps the two most publicly owned of English Poets - both poets ostensibly making their living by being poets, and most interestingly, poets in the public eye. At one time it might have seemed odd to compare them - odd to me anyway - but as the years have passed similarities in their strategies to being a poet have emerged. Anyone who has recently heard these poets perform might understand what I mean better. They can draw an audience from outside the poetry world. You usually know what you are going to get and if you like that sort of thing you usuaally leave satisfied. They are not poets to turn their own approaches upside down or re-invent themselves radically between collections. They have found a formula - quite a conservative one - and they stick to it. They make the right noises and they seldon upset anyone. More and more, however, I am convinced that Motion is in fact the less predictable, which has been a rare surprise for me. There are narrative poems in Public Property that walk further towards uncertain and dark territory than anything in Armitage since Kid. The Game is genuinely and richly disturbing. And there is much less verbal formula too - less of the ticks and tricks of the man playing to the gallery he knows too well. A great deal of this material seems fresh and promises a new seam in Motion's work. A pleasant surprise for me. He's drawn me in.
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