This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems. Certain preoccupations unite the book, which from first to last is particularly concerned with the ways in which our lives are shaped by loss. But as a poet Motion is also an energetic and protean spirit, and while the shapes and voices of the poems mostly prove this by using intimate and lyric forms, they also sometimes adapt from direct speech and collaborate with documentary sources. These are extraordinary poems of and for our times, enlarging our sense of the cost of human experience even as they refine those sensibilities that keep us most alive and engaged with the present.