Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Words Ltd
1991: Love in a Life. Faber and Faber


Criticism
1980: The Poetry of Edward Thomas. Sir Andrew Motion FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet novelist and biographer who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

In 2012 Sir Andrew became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England taking over from Bill Bryson. During the period of his laureateship Motion founded the Poetry Archive an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work.