Sir Andrew Motion Silver - Return to Treasure Island

Silver - Return to Treasure Island
Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate between 1999-2009, introduces his eagerly awaited sequel to Treasure Island  -  Silver  -  featuring a cast of noble seamen, murderous pirates and tales of love, valour and terrible cruelty. ‘Treasure Island is a book I have loved since childhood,’  he says. ‘It is a cornerstone of my reading, and of my imagination. Excitement, mystery, intrigue, suspense, pathos and human sympathy.’ He will also be reading from his latest book of poems, The Cinder Path (shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry), Laurels and Donkeys on conflicts from 1914 to the war in Afghanistan, and his acclaimed autobiography In The Blood - A Memoir of My Childhood .
Andrew Motion’s poetry has received the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and recently co-founded The Poetry Archive.
'Compelling, simple and mysterious.' Sean O'Brien Sunday Times
'Motion is a beautiful lyricist, unpretentiously and precisely describing those things worth having even as he casts unsettling shadows across them.' Robert Potts The Guardian