The Fifth Annual Watts Lecture

Sir Andrew Motion: The Cinder Path

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 6.30pm in Hall

Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, will be considering a number of G. F. Watts’s paintings and their relationship to poetry in the course of the lecture where he will introduce his latest book of poems, The Cinder Path and a new collection of essays, Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets. He talks about his acclaimed autobiography In The Blood - A Memoir of My Childhood and answers questions about his writing and his role as Laureate.

‘Compelling, simple & mysterious’
Sean O’Brien, Sunday Times

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999. ‘I see myself as town crier, can-opener and flag-waver for poetry’. His poetry has received the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and recently co-founded The Poetry Archive. He was knighted in 2009.

‘His voice is unlike any other’
Lavinia Greenlaw, New Statesman & Society

£10/£5 students (call 01483 813 584 for group booking discounts)
Students of Chartethouse have free entry.

Book tickets online or call: 01483 813584

Sir Andrew Motion: The Cinder Path PDF

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Supported by the Art Department, Charterhouse