Truth, Post-Truth, and Poetry | Full Talk | Andrew Motion

Truth, Post-Truth, and Poetry | Full Talk | Andrew Motion

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Poet Laureate Andrew Motion gets to the root of poetry's power.

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Where does poetry get its power? How can it reveal truths where reason and prose might fail? Hear former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion perform and explore the way of ideas and imagination. 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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