The former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, will be moving to the US in July after being appointed Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. His new collection, Peace Talks, will be published in June. Motion, who recently won the Ted Hughes award for new work, will be reading with Owen O’Neill at the Landmark arts centre, Teddington, south-west London on 30 April. More details 

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