Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'

Editor and Poet Laureate                          

Selected Works:

Poetry Collections:

1972: Goodnestone: a sequence
1976: Inland
1977: The Pleasure Steamers
1981: Independence
1983: Secret Narratives
1984: Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984
1987: Natural Causes
1988: Two Poems
1991: Love in a Life
1994: The Price of Everything
1997: Salt Water
1998: Selected Poems 1976–1997 - 2001: A Long Story
2002: Public Property
2009: The Cinder Path

Criticism:

1980: The Poetry of Edward Thomas
1982: Philip Larkin - Contemporary Writers series
1986: Elizabeth Bishop - Chatterton Lectures on an English Poet
1998: Sarah Raphael: Strip!. Marlborough Fine Art
2008: Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets

Biography and Memoir:

1986: The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
1993: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
1997: Keats: A Biography
2006: In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

Fiction:

1989: The Pale Companion
1991: Famous for the Creatures
2003: The Invention of Dr Cake
2000: Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confessions of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright - biographical novel
2012: Silver

Edited Works, Introductions and Forwards:

1981: Selected Poems: William Barnes.
1982: The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry with Blake Morrison
1994: Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems
1993: New Writing 2, With Malcolm Bradbury
1994: New Writing 3, With Candice Rodd
1997: Penguin Modern Poets: Volume 11 with Michael Donaghy and Hugo Williams
1998: Take 20: New Writing
1999: Verses of the Poets Laureate: From John Dryden to Andrew Motion. With Hilary Laurie
1999: Babel: New Writing by the University of East Anglia's MA Writers. 
2001: Firsthand: The New Anthology of Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia
2002: Paper Scissors Stone: New Writing from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA
2001: The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction & Poetry. With Julia Bell
2000: John Keats: Poems Selected by Andrew Motion. Faber and Faber
2001: Here to Eternity: An Anthology of Poetry. Faber and Faber2002: The Mays Literary Anthology; Guest editor
2003: 101 Poems Against War , Afterword
2003: First World War Poems
2006: Collins Rhyming Dictionary
2007: Bedford Square 2: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme.                          

Mother Catherine Gillian Motion
Father Andrew Richard Motion
First wife Joanna Powel, divorced
Second wife Janet Dally, divorced , three children.                          

Awards:

Newdigate Prize for Oxford Undergraduate poetry - 1975
Eric Gregory Award - 1976
Arvon Foundation's International Poetry Competition with The Letter - 1981
 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984 - 1984
Somerset Maugham Award for The Lamberts - 1986
Dylan Thomas Prize for Natural Causes - 1987
Appointed Poet Laureate for ten years - 1999
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, Whitbread Prize for Biography - 1994
Knighthood - 2009
                          

Newdigate Prize, British literary prize, poetry prize founded in 1805 by Sir Roger Newdigate and awarded at the University of Oxford.