7/8/2023 0 Comments Philip larkin by andrew motion![]() ![]() He wanted to write "poems about things in the news, and commissions from people or organisations involved with ordinary life," rather than be seen a 'courtier'. The yearly stipend of £200 was increased to £5,000 and he received the customary butt of sack. Breaking with the tradition of the laureate retaining the post for life, Motion stipulated that he would stay for only ten years. The Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet and translator Seamus Heaney had ruled himself out for the post. Motion was appointed Poet Laureate on, following the death of Ted Hughes, the previous incumbent. ![]() Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. ![]()
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