Short | Why People Need Poetry In A Post-Truth World | Andrew Motion

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Andrew Motion is a poet and author. Known for his biographies of Phillip Larkin, he was Poet Laureate in the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. He founded the Poetry Archive, and now teaches at John Hopkins University.

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