Editing Andrew Motion (section)

{{short description|English poet and writer (born 1952)}}
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| name             = Andrew Motion
| honorific-suffix = [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]]
| image            = Andrew Motion, April 2009.jpg
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| office           = [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom]]
| monarch          = [[Elizabeth II]]
| term_start       = 1 May 1999
| term_end         = 1 May 2009
| predecessor      = [[Ted Hughes]]
| successor        = [[Carol Ann Duffy]]
| caption          = Motion reading poetry in 2009
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| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1952|10|26}}
| birth_place      = London, England
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| occupation       = Poet
| nationality      = British
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| education        = [[Radley College]]
| alma_mater       = [[University College, Oxford]]
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| spouse           = {{unbulleted list|Joanna Powell {{font|size=95%|text=({{abbr|div.|divorced}} 1983)}}|{{marriage|Jan Dalley|1985|2009|end=div}}|{{marriage|Kyeong-Soo Kim|2010}}}}
| children         = 3
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'''Sir Andrew Motion''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSL}} (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom|Poet Laureate]] from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the [[Poetry Archive]], an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]], taking over from [[Bill Bryson]].