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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins. Between 1999 and 2009 he was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. His latest book is Coming in to Land: Selected Poems, 1975–2015. (February 2018)

‘Icicles Frozen to Icicles. Midday Sun Warming the Bank Above Where I Worked. Causing Some Ice to Melt and Fall. Continued to Freeze in the Shadows. Cold Overnight. Still Intact the Following Day. Collapsed Two Days Later. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 8 January 2010’; photograph by Andy Goldsworthy

The Pencil of Nature

Ephemeral Works 2004–2014

by Andy Goldsworthy

Projects

by Andy Goldsworthy

February 8, 2018 issue

‘The Rising Moon, or an English Pastoral’; etching by Samuel Palmer, 1855

An Elegy for the Living

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

by Ronald Blythe, with an introduction by Matt Weiland

June 23, 2016 issue

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