Randomly Moving Particles (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Motion, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822966557 ISBN 13: 9780822966555

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021

Synopsis

<i>Randomly Moving Particles</i> is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with subjects that include migration, placement, loss, space exploration, and current British and American politics. It is a clarifying action and reaction between terra and solar system, mundanity and possibility, taking us from the grit of road surfaces to the distant glimpses of satellites. The final poem, “How Do the Dead Walk,” combines mythic reach with acute observation of the familiar, in order to address issues of contemporary violence. It is altogether more dreamlike, even in its tangibly military moments, grasping as it does at phantoms and intermediate plains.<br><br><br>Andrew Motion’s expansive new poetry collection is direct in its emotional appeal and ambitious in its scope, all while retaining the cinematic vision and startling expression that so freshly lit the lines of his last, <i>Essex Clay</i>.

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About the Author

<b>Andrew Motion</b> is professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study <i>The Lamberts</i> won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorized life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Motion was knighted in the United Kingdom for his services to poetry in 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822966557
• ISBN 13: 9780822966555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120