Arvon Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Eric Gregory Award, Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Motion took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, writing and performing a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible. Personal life Motion's marriage to Joanna Powell ended in 1983. He was married to Jan Dalley from 1985 to 2009, divorcing after a seven-year separation. They had one son born in 1986 and twins, a son and a daughter, born in 1988. In 2010 he married Kyeong-Soo Kim. He currently lives part of the year in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. Selected honours and awards 1975: won the Newdigate prize for Oxford undergraduate poetry 1976: Eric Gregory Award 1981: wins Arvon Foundation's International Poetry Competition with The Letter 1984: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984 1987: Somerset Maugham Award for The Lamberts 1987: Dylan Thomas Prize for Natural Causes 1999: appointed Poet Laureate for ten years 1994: Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life, Whitbread Prize for Biography 2009: Knight Bachelor 2014: Wilfred Owen Poetry Award Bibliography Poetry Poems 1972: Goodnestone: A Sequence (in Workshop Poets No. 7). Workshop Press 1976: Inland. Cygnet Press Collections 1978: The Pleasure Steamers. Carcanet 1981: Independence. Salamander Press 1983: Secret Narratives. Salamander Press 1984: Dangerous Play: Poems 1974–1984. Salamander Press / Penguin 1987: Natural Causes. Chatto & Windus 1988: Two Poems. Words Ltd 1991: Love in a Life. Faber and Faber 1994: The Price of Everything. Faber and Faber 1997: Salt Water Faber and Faber 1998: Selected Poems 1976–1997. Faber and Faber 2001: A Long Story. The Old School Press 2002: Public Property. Faber and Faber 2009: The Cinder Path. Faber and Faber 2012: The Customs House. Faber and Faber 2015: Peace Talks. Faber and Faber 2015: Coming Home. Fine Press Poetry 2017: Coming in to Land: Selected Poems, 1975–2015. Ecco Press 2018: Essex Clay. Faber and Faber 2020: Randomly Moving Particles. Faber and Faber List of poems Criticism 1980: The Poetry of Edward Thomas. Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982: Philip Larkin. (Contemporary Writers series) Methuen 1986: Elizabeth Bishop. (Chatterton Lectures on an English Poet) 1998: Sarah Raphael: Strip!. Marlborough Fine Art (London) 2008: Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets. Faber and Faber Biography 1986: The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit. Chatto & Windus 1993: Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life. Faber and Faber 1997: Keats: A