The Cinder Path

Andrew Motion

ISBN 10: 0571244920 / ISBN 13: 9780571244928

Published by Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 2009

About this Item

Collection of verse drawn from a variety of sources and ending with a group of autobiographical poems about the life and times of the poet's father. Silver lettering to spine. 58pp. Slight lean and minor bumping to spine and former owner's name to endpaper, otherwise very good copy in very good plus unclipped dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 011241

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cinder Path
• Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571244920
• ISBN 13: 9780571244928
• Binding: Dark Blue Cloth Boards
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and a shared humanity - exploring how people cope with threats to and in the world around them, as soldiers, lovers, artists, writers and citizens. The conversational tone and formal variety of these poems both shapes and diversifies their response to loss and its inevitabilities.

Here are poems about the last surviving veteran of the trenches; poems which work with found materials drawn from the contiguous worlds of prose; poems which elicit the parallel lives glimpsed in paintings, or the other lives of birds, trees and weather (as of an ordinariness just out of reach). An unemphatic evenness of handling, in the detailing of ordinary destinies, alternates with capacious panoramas of longing and summation, and the collection ends with a remarkable group of directly autobiographical poems about the life and times of the poet's father.

About the Author

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood, was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977 - 2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.