The Poems of Andrew Motion Andrew Motion

‘I want my writing to be as clear as water. No ornate language; very few obvious tricks. I want readers to be able to see all the way down through its surfaces into the swamp. I want them to feel they’re in a world they thought they knew, but...

‘The Steelworks’ by Owen Sheers and ‘From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by Andrew Motion are both poems that focus on a stereotypical male-dominated occupation (the repair of the pier and the manufacture of the steel) and can thus be said to...