by Payal Mudliar

1. By Payal Mudliar

2. An Introduction
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3.  Born in London in October 26, 1952, Sir Andrew Motion was raised in
Stisted, in Essex, the son of an army colonel and brewery executive.
 He studied at Radley College from 1965 to 1970, where he was introduced
to the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, William
Wordsworth, John Keats, and others.
 He later studied weekly with W. H. Auden at University College, Oxford.
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4.  In 1977, Motion's first collection of poems, The Pleasure Steamers, was
published by Sycamore Press.
 Other early collections include Independence ; Secret
Narratives (1983); Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984 , which received the
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and Natural Causes (1987), which won the Dylan
Thomas Award.
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5.  From 1977 until 1981, Motion served as Lecturer in English at the University
of Hull, where he met and became close friends with the poet and
librarian Philip Larkin.
 When Larkin died in 1985, his longtime companion Monica Jones requested
that Motion consider writing a biography of his mentor and friend.
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6.  Motion also wrote Keats: A Biography (Faber and Faber, 1987), which
inspired film director Jane Campion's adaptation, Bright Star in 2009.
 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and knighted in
1999, Motion served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to
2009.
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7.  His other honors include the Arvon Observer Prize and the
Somerset Maugham Award, among many others.
 He currently lives in London, England
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