Peace Talks New Book, Sir Andrew Motion, Paperback

Name: Peace Talks New Book, Sir Andrew Motion, Paperback
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Andrew Motion

The second half of Andrew Motions new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These meditations on combat and the people caught up in it look back to conflicts of the past to the war to end all wars to Rupert Brooke on his final journey to Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital to Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his fatal shooting. But Motion also depicts the ravages of modern warfare through reported speech, redacted documents, and vivid evocations of place, his plain understatement bringing the magnitude of war home to our own shores. These poems are moving and measured, delicate and cleareyed, and bear witness to the futility of war and the suffering of those left behind. Elsewhere we find biographies in miniature, dreams and visions, family histories, which in their range of forms and voices consider questions of identity, and character. These are poems of remembrance in which Motions war poems, all in their own way elegies, find a natural partner. Peace Talks is a wise and compassionate work. | Andrew Motion Peace Talks Paperback Book