Sir Andrew Motion
b. 1952

Sir Andrew Motion was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984.
Image credit: Charlotte Knee
Articles by Sir Andrew Motion
Consider the seahorse – full audio
Andrew Motion reads a new poem about this curious, beguiling species, and giving us his own take on its importance to humanity.
Consider the seahorse – short film
RSL in partnership with ZSL Authors for Animals programme welcomed Sir Andrew Motion to the aquarium for his talk ‘Consider The Seahorse’. This is an excerpt from the talk where he reads his new poem 'Histories of the Sea Horse', written specially for the event.