New and Selected Poem 1977-2022 by Andrew Motion Jonathan Totman on what the parts of

on what the parts of the body have to say about themselves

and a fresh new look

clear yet idiosyncratic

Vietnam and a memorial poem to the victims of the 2015 Bataclan attack where the dead are ‘stations of flame’

and the chapbook Bloom & Martyr

New and Selected Poem 1977-2022 by Andrew Motion Jonathan Totman on what the parts ofFrom an extraordinary poetic career, these poems offer intimate reflections on memory and the cost of human experience. This volume draws on Andrew Motions distinguished body ofwork and includes many new and previously uncollected poems. Certain preoccupations remain constant an eye for the ways our lives are shaped by loss and an appetite to compensate for that deficit by paying close attention to the world. But Motion is also a roving spirit, a