Public Property

Public PropertyAuthor: Motion, Andrew Literature & literary studies Published on 19 May 2003 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom. Paperback 112 pages 196 x 127 x 8 90g In his first collection since being appointed Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In the opening series of idylls he conjures the expeditionary narratives of a rural childhood, in scenes

The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill

a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland

at just 15

while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household

178 x 129 x 11 | 108g

196 x 250 x 32 | 1198g

violence and stirring speeches

London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship

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Regina Hall

and memories of her lovely

Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy