Andrew Motion Quote

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Motion

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

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About Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer who served as Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During 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, succeeding Bill Bryson.