The Cinder Path AS NEW SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION

Motion Andrew

ISBN 10: 0571244920 / ISBN 13: 9780571244928

Published by Faber and Faber, UK, 2009

About this Item

An as new first printing in a likewise unclipped dust jacket. This immaculate unread gift condition copy is SIGNED and Publication Day DATED 18th April 2009 by the Author to the title page. Scarce to find with these superb outstanding attributes.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cinder Path AS NEW SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, UK
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571244920
• ISBN 13: 9780571244928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Author Signed

About this title

Synopsis

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since "Public Property" in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens. The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its inevitabilities. Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the contiguous worlds of prose; poems which elicit the parallel lives glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach).An unemphatic evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies, alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and the collection ends with a remarkable group of directly autobiographical poems about the life and times of the poet's father.

About the Author

Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999; he 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 The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday.