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To celebrate its 175th Anniversary the RIBA commissioned a poem from the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. His poem ‘Frozen Music’ was first read at the Royal Gold Medal dinner on 26th February. The title is a reference to Goethe who said “I call architecture frozen music”.

 

To reproduce part or whole of the poem, permissions must be cleared through Carol Macarthur at United Agents, 020 3214 0880; cmacarthur@unitedagents.co.uk|

Do you feel there is architecture in poetry and poetry in architecture? Tell us your views|.

 

The links below offer some further reading on the subject:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2008/oct/21/poetry-architecture-hardy-larkin-betjeman|

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5923|

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=4951|

 

 

Biography – Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His other books include the novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) and his childhood memoir, In the Blood (2006).