[Andrew] Motion has steadily demonstrated that the central part of his work is elegy. This is not wholly a matter of choice (as a young man he wrote of his mother's death after she spent several years in a coma following an accident), but you need considerable powers to make the individual story take on the contours of the general fate. With The Cinder Path, at whose centre lies the death of his father three years ago, Motion arrives at a new authority, a sober clarity of method in the expression of love for a man with a "slightly lifted hand/either showing I should stay,/or pushing me away".
from The Sunday Times: The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
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