The Customs House - **Signed** - 1st/1st

Motion Andrew

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2012

About this Item

A new unread copy, signed 'Andrew Motion' to the title page. Andrew Motion s new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the poems are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. The Customs House has other rooms: a group of topographies, mapping moments in a marriage against the contingencies of place and family history; and several found poems , in which the poet collaborates with his source, mixing what is there already with what is about to be there: whether a remarkable sonnet sequence on the last days of the Baroque genius Francesco Borromini, or in other poems a richly imagined extrapolation from the silent premises of a painting.

Seller Inventory # 002823

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Customs House - **Signed** - 1st/1st
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2012
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Signed Without Inscription
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • War & Espionage