Andrew Motion: ‘Wilfred Owen became a kind of sacred text for me’

The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the genius of Alexander Pope My earliest reading memory My parents were country people who thought that looking after or chasing animals was more fun than reading: my…

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