Sleeping on IslandsAndrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear sighted and open hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home life coloured by tragedy and silence where writing was as much a refuge as an assertion to the excruciations of early public appearances, to the decade he spent as Poet Laureate, promoting and ensuring the central place of poetry in a