Motion rebuts plagiarism claim

Published on Monday, November 9th, 2009

andrew motionFormer British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion is “jarred,” and unconvinced, by historian Ben Shephard’s claim that Motion’s poem “An Equal Voice” – a “found” poem about war which Motion prefaces by acknowledging heĀ uses excerpts from Shephard’s 2001 history of medical psychiatry, A War of Nerves – is an act of plagiarism. More at Guardian, which published the controversial poem on Saturday.