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Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets is a richly varied and rewarding collection of Andrew Motion's best critical writings.

About the Author

Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London. His novella, The Invention of Dr Cake, was published in 2003) and was described as 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' (Sunday Telegraph), and 'amazingly clever' - (Irish Times).His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read.' in the Independent on Sunday.