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	Hurricane Andrew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew caused $26 billion ($45 billion in 2005 US dollars) in damages (mostly in south Florida) and is the second most expensive hurricane in history (behind Katrina of the 2005 season).
		Andrew was only the third Category 5 hurricane to hit the United States, the previous ones being Hurricane Camille (which hit Mississippi and Louisiana in August 1969) and the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (which struck the Florida Keys in September 1935).
		Andrew produced a 17 ft (5.2 m) storm surge near the landfall point in Florida, while storm tides of at least eight ft (2.4 m) inundated portions of the Louisiana coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hurricane_Andrew (1260 words)

	Andrew Motion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Andrew Motion (born October 26, 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who is the current Poet Laureate.
		Andrew Motion is a member of the Arts Council of England and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
		In 2003, Motion wrote a poem protesting the Invasion of Iraq called "Regime Change;" the poem is told from the 3rd person point of view, showing a speech made by Death in the streets of Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Motion (536 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Andrew Motion
		Andrew Motion was born in London and educated at Oxford University, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry.
		When Motion was 16, his mother was involved in a riding accident which left her in a comatose state for 10 years before her death in hospital.
		Motion is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1998.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/motiona2.shtml (296 words)

	94-3268 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Andrew had not presented substantial evidence, the supreme court ruled, that removal from Wendy's care was necessary because the custodial conditions with Wendy were harmful to the physical or emotional best interest of the child, as required by § 767.325(1)(a), Stats., when modification is sought within two years of the initial order.
		After Andrew's counsel objected on the ground that a motion was pending in Dane County Circuit Court and that there should be a conference involving the judges and all parties to determine which court should exercise jurisdiction, neither Wendy nor her counsel took further action in the Rock County court.
		Wendy's stipulation that Andrew have sole custody and primary placement until the trial court decided his motion is inconsistent with her insisting that primary placement and sole custody be returned to her based on the supreme court mandate.
	www.courts.state.wi.us /ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.html?content=html&seqNo=8370 (17794 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 9 (February 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Motion's prose, she finds, is disfigured by 'numerous repellent anachronisms of reference', an obscure phrase, but she gives examples.
		She dislikes, for example, Motion's introduction into a formal critical vocabulary of a word like 'gooey', a complaint that has the unintentional merit of reminding us that Keats's language, both in his verse and his prose, is often marked by a similar sliding between registers.
		Motion's account of the poems is alert to the class of the poet, but finds very little to say about their language.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~scat0385/motion.html (1494 words)

	Andrew Motion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Motion says he likes Lemsip not for its curative properties, but because it helps him to feel mildly ill and introspective, and that is conducive to poetry.
		Andrew Motion was joined on the judging panel by Barnsley FC poet in residence Ian McMillan, football commentator Stuart Hall, Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave from BBC Radio 1, and Nic Gault of Barclaycard.
		Motion, whose own services are called upon to commemorate births, marriages and deaths in the Royal Family, says the effect of a good eulogy should be like handing out photographs of the loved one for everyone in the congregation to keep after the service.
	www.martinblyth.co.uk /motionsmuse.htm (1121 words)

	Hurricane History
		A continued west to west-northwestward motion brought the center to the Texas coast south of Corpus Christi as a Category 3 hurricane on September 14.
		This motion brought Andrew to the central Louisiana coast on August 26 as a Category 3 hurricane.
		Andrew produced a 17 ft storm surge near the landfall point in Florida, while storm tides of at least 8 ft inundated portions of the Louisiana coast.
	www.nhc.noaa.gov /HAW2/english/history.shtml (9971 words)

	“Just let me put this bastard on the skids”: Andrew Motion’s Philip Larkin by Christopher Carduff
		Andrew Motion, though he is also a distinguished poet, critic, and editor, is, in his new biography of Philip Larkin, just another such writer.
		Motion’s chief aim as biographer is not to devalue Larkin’s oeuvre—on the contrary, most of his reading of it is appreciative—but to make us marvel at the paradox of its very existence: for Motion, it’s the improbably gorgeous product of a wholly loathsome mind.
		He was, in Motion’s words, “intolerant to the point of perversity, contemptuous of women, careless of other people’s feelings or fates, yet at the same time excitingly intellectual [and] inspirationally quick-witted.” Larkin’s mother, Eva, a cosseting parent and a cowed wife, was passive, snobbish, and forever bewailing her lot.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/12/sep93/larkin.htm (2098 words)

	Biography of Andrew Motion
		Andrew Motion, recently made Poet Laureate, is a poet and biographer, acclaimed for studies of Keats and Philip Larkin: a brief profile
		Andrew Motion's lifelong interest in John Keats recently culminated in his acclaimed biography of the poet, the first for 30 years.
		Motion firmly endorses this; " I can think of no higher ambition for my work than that it might be a comfort to people in moments of extremity.
	nc.essortment.com /andrewmotion_rcty.htm (676 words)

	Andrew Motion
		Professor Andrew Motion was born in London on 26 October 1952, and read English at University College, Oxford.
		An acclaimed poet (and champion of poetry), critic, biographer and lecturer, Andrew Motion became Poet Laureate in 1999, succeeding Ted Hughes.
		Andrew Motion came to notice in the mid-seventies with oblique and tight-lipped narratives that for a time looked like the beginning of a new school.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth76 (1178 words)

	Books: Nothing Personal (The Boston Phoenix . 02-23-98)
		In a new biography of the poet, Andrew Motion tries to show us Keats where he is not usually found: in the realm of politics.
		It is a novel approach, and it is Motion's justification for adding yet another book to the enormous body of Keats literature; he insists that Keats was not the shrinking aesthete of literary mythology but a politically aware man, and possibly even a political poet.
		Motion is right about Keats's radical sympathies, and his letters and early poems inveigh against tyranny and a corrupt monarchy; to the end, he remained a strong liberal in politics.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-23-98/boston_books_1.html (870 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| higher news \| Andrew Motion : Mr Speaker
		Motion's intention is that the recordings should be as catholic as possible to reflect all cultural voices.
		Motion became one of Larkin's literary executors and went on to write his biography, a book that was well received by almost everyone other than Kingsley and Martin Amis.
		Much as Motion enjoys the buzz of teaching, it's as a poet he is best known and most wants to be remembered.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/news/story/0,9830,1665577,00.html (1831 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, has been recruited by a funeral service to advise bereaved relatives and friends on how to write a suitable eulogy.
		Prof Motion said that the eulogy was seen as the centrepiece of the funeral, "at once a greeting and a letting go".
		Prof Motion, who has written poems on the deaths of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Diana, Princess of Wales, said the eulogy should be "specific, particular, even intimate, thereby to seal the sense of occasion".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/14/neulog14.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/07/14/ixhome.html (617 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Wainewright the Poisoner: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Andrew Motion could have written a conventional biography of Thomas Wainewright, the dandified friend of Blake, Charles Lamb, de Quincey and Keats; art critic and painter (he painted Byron's portrait) who was also a notorious forger and poisoner.
		Motion's well-regarded biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats demonstrate that he certainly possesses the biographical skill to get under the skin of complex characters.
		However, Motion uses all the vividness and subtlety at his command to convey the curious mixture of the appealing and the appalling in Wainewright's make-up, and to illustrate his thesis "that good and evil grow on the same stem".
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571205461 (894 words)

	West Lafayette, Indiana
		Motion was seconded by City Attorney Bauman and the vote was AYE.
		Director Andrew moved approval of the closing of Columbia between Northwestern and Chauncey between 4 and 8 p.m.
		This is the yearly procedure we go through where they come in and present their requests, and those requests are listened to by the Mayor's Advisory Board and this is what we came up with.
	www.city.west-lafayette.in.us /government/minutes/bw081500.htm (1145 words)

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		Andrew Motion, poet laureate of Britain and also a noted biographer, will speak on "Literary Biography" at 8 p.m.
		Motion was named poet laureate of Britain in 1999.
		Of this appointment, Motion said, "Although I'll be using my time as poet laureate to make things happen, I want to make sure I 'speak truth to power' as Hazlitt said.
	record.wustl.edu /2002/09-06-02/motion.html (378 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Poetic license (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now, I'm not saying that Andrew Motion, England's poet laureate, slept with his creative writing pupil Laura Fish, or she with him.
		The laureate before the present incumbent, Andrew Motion, was Ted Hughes, an appointment that surprised everyone because Hughes was a caveman, and some sort of shaman to boot.
		Motion teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia, on an M.A. course until recently considered to be the finest in the country.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2001/08/07/motion/?sid=1044360 (642 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Motion cheers online poem archive
		Together with British recording producer Richard Carrington, Motion instigated the project, which aims to ensure that every significant Anglophone poet from anywhere in the world is captured reading their verse.
		Although there are significant gaps - recordings of AE Housman, Thomas Hardy and DH Lawrence, for example, do not exist - Motion explained how the he felt the value of the site is highlighted in one of the older recordings, made in the 1932, of WB Yeats, which he described as "mesmeric".
		Motion did, however, stress that a poet does not know everything about their own work, and it is important to bear this in mind when listening to them read.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4524646.stm (518 words)

	Andrew Motion - Press - www.andrewmotion.co.uk
		Andrew Motion was appointed as Poet Laureate in May 1999.
		Since becoming the UK's official royal poet, Motion has followed the primary function of his role by marking special state events with a poem.
		Andrew Motion's work has received the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize.
	www.uktouring.org.uk /andrewmotion/press.htm (600 words)

	Student Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As a conversationalist, he is impressively modest, attired for an interview in loafers and a t-shirt, quickly admitting that he "sort of mumbles." Above all, Motion distinguishes himself as personal, both in his poetry and in his interaction with the public.
		Motion's childhood, spent in a small town outside of London, appears frequently in his poems.
		Motion spent much of his young life at a religious boys' school, where he was very involved in his faith, but in what he described as a "compulsory, non-questioning " sort of way.
	media.www.studlife.com /media/paper337/news/2002/09/17/Cadenza/On.Her.Majestys.Secret.Service-277594.shtml?sourcedomain=www.studlife.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (356 words)

	Books and Writing - 3/04/1998: Andrew Motion on Keats (Transcript)
		His latest biographer is the English poet and critic, Andrew Motion who adds Keat's scalp to his previous books on Phillip Larkin (which won him the Whitbread prize), Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Bishop.
		What you're about to read is a lecture on Keats by Andrew Motion which I recorded last January at the 92nd Street Y, in mid-town Manhattan, on a chilly winter's day.
		Andrew Motion there speaking at the 92nd Street Y in New York, New York in late January 1998.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/bwriting/stories/s122753.htm (5562 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Poet laureate joins doubters over Iraq
		In a rare step for a poet laureate, Andrew Motion today speaks out in his newest poem against the momentum towards a US-led invasion of Iraq using British forces who would be serving nominally under the Queen.
		In the 30-word poem, Motion, who was appointed by the Queen in 1999, sides with those who are "doubtful" about a war - and against the political leaderships of Britain and America.
		Motion added: "I do believe that, if there are weapons of mass destruction discovered in Iraq, something needs to be done.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,871226,00.html (499 words)

	The Poet Laureate visits Alton College \| News \| Alton College
		The Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, is used to receiving commissions of all kinds.
		Andrew Motion began with a memory of his own schooldays when his English teacher, Mr May, as he put it, "walked into my head and turned on all the lights".
		Stimulating their imagination with a few postcards, Andrew skilfully guided their efforts to produce a poem in the session, hearing a few excellent pieces at the end, and giving sensitive, complimentary yet constructive advice about how to turn life into art.
	www.altoncollege.ac.uk /news.php?id=128 (433 words)

	Poet laureate uses quill to make point against war - smh.com.au
		The British poet laureate, Andrew Motion, speaks out in his newest poem against the momentum towards a United States-led invasion of Iraq using British forces who would be serving nominally under the Queen.
		In the 30-word poem published yesterday, Motion - appointed in 1999 - sides with those who are "doubtful" about a war, and against the political leaderships of Britain and the US.
		Motion said the reference to "Dad" in the last line of the poem was to Mr Bush's "strange father fixation" with George Bush senior, who led the US into war with Iraq in 1991.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/09/1041990047170.html (422 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Arts & Humanities \| Andrew Motion on Philip Larkin
		He was condemned as a misogynist and racist, but Philip Larkin's poetry reveals a world illuminated by unexpected lights.
		While he was still breathing, most people assumed they arose from an ordinary life; one of his greatest legacies is to make us pretty sure that no such thing exists.
		Andrew Motion's biography Larkin: A Writer's Life and Philip Larkin's Collected Poems are published by Faber, price £14.99 and £10.99.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,991825,00.html (1525 words)

	[minstrels] Regime Change -- Andrew Motion
		Calling it 'Regime Change', presumably the change from life's to death's realm, from standing monuments of history to fading memory, is bleakly ironic commentary on the political beginnings and propaganda of this war.
		Motion addresses the common concern about priceless historical sites being obliterated in a moment of wanton destruction, and sets that against the background of a Middle East enriched by the passing millennia, the cradle of civilisations, empires and legends.
		Quote of the day: "Andrew Motion said his 22 lines of verse were intended to be explicitly anti-war." -- http://dsdsdemo2.ap.org/aptopicsdemo/stories/184_ds_1764009.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!?
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1215.html (1030 words)

	Andrew Motion biog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1994 his biography of Philip Larkin was awarded the Whitbread Prize for Biography, and shortlisted for the NCR Award.
		Wainewright the Poisoner is a dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats.
		Combining the form of a ‘confession’ with notes, asides and illuminates, Wainewright the Poisoner strips away the layers of legend and restores Wainewright to his own voice, capturing his dandified style, his charm as well as his callousness, his wit as well as his wantonness – and his deadly unreliability.
	www.durhamcityarts.demon.co.uk /festivals/a_motion.htm (197 words)

	Andrew Motion
		Motion's first official verse celebrated the marriage of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones.
		Andrew Motion - Andrew Motion British poet, biographer, and novelist Born: 10/26/1952 Birthplace: London Motion was...
		Chapter and verse: Andrew Motion; His greatest frustration is that the media pays no attention to poetry " except when the poet's love life is involved.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0779325.html (354 words)

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