Neither is the Horse and Other Poems - Rory Motion

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Andrew Motion is Poet Laureate, which means he is obligated to write reverential poetry about the Queen on demand and generally fawn and prostrate his poetic muscles before her: as she sees fit. He does seem like a nice bloke though. Luckily for us this isn’t a review of the poetry of Andrew Motion, who will almost certainly NEVER publish a body of work under such a silly and wonderful title as “Neither is the Horse”. ***************************************************** ...
...that little known poet RORY Motion. As I understand it Rory is no relation whatever to Andrew but will still accept compliments about his Laureate-dom quite beautifully if you feel the need to proffer them. Rory is the sort of poet who has a one-man pantomime horse that he tends to wander about in. He does a good deal of wandering about, primarily in his home town of Huddersfield. Rory doesn’t like lots of things about the modern world, but rather ... Read review