PagineAndrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009 and co-founded the Poetry Archive, an online collection of poets reading their work.
We only host poems that are in the public domain, so this page has no poem texts.
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Andrew Motion’s poems are still protected by copyright, so we don’t reproduce them. This page links to legal places to read them: the poet’s publishers, your local library, the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, which share many poems with permission.
The Pleasure Steamers (1978).