{"id":8215,"date":"2025-03-11T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8215"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:50:56","slug":"andrew-motion","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/andrew-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, <em>In the Blood<\/em>, was published by Faber &amp; Faber in 2006, and its sequel, <em>Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry<\/em>, appeared alongside <em>Selected Poems: 1977 \u2013 2022<\/em> in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Aisha Butler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This biography is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/\">Faber &amp; Faber website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 by Faber &amp; Faber in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9622,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8215","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}