Sir Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion was the UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and is co-founder of the Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart. He was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. Motion’s most recent collections are New and Selected Poems 1977-2023 (2023), and Waders (2024). He has also written two volumes of autobiography, In the Blood (2006) and Sleeping on Islands (2023), biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats, and a book of essays, Ways of Life. A devoted admirer of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Andrew Motion published an officially authorized sequel to Treasure Island in 2012, titled Silver: Return to Treasure Island.