Motion (Andrew, former poet laureate, b.1952) Small collection of early correspondence and poetry, comprising one Autograph Letter (2pp.), 11 Typed Letters (totaling 16pp.) & 3 Autograph Postcards, all signed Andrew and to Stephen [Brook, publisher], as well as a 25pp. photocopy typescript of poems for inclusion in an intended volume, signed by Motion at the head of the first page and with a few pencil corrections, many leaves stapled, a couple marginal chips, some toning, folds, housed together in a folder, v.s., 1977-81 (small qty. in one folder)

⁂ The earlier letters relate mostly to the publication of the later Poet Laureate's critical study, expanded from his doctoral thesis, of Edward Thomas, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1980. The later letters concern a proposed, but unrealised, collection of poems for the same publisher and Motion's dilemma about parting ways his his previous publisher Richard Schmidt at Carcanet Press. Some of the poems in the 25pp. photocopy typescript subsequently appeared, mostly in radically different versions, in the collection 'Secret Narratives' published by the Salamander Press in 1983, while much of it appears to remain unpublished.