The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... hell). Scrupulously, Motion cites his sources – quotations (not the author's own words) from Ben Shephard's A War of Nerves, along with quotations from the war poet Siegfried Sassoon (whose literary remains Motion, it is reported, has been successful in saving for the nation). Pointy-headed academics will know (Motion, recall, is a London university professor as well as a "Sir")...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's the same old story: Andrew Motion published a 'found poem', An Equal Voice , in The Guardian this weekend, and used more words that he ... found elsewhere than the original author of those words cared for. Motion doesn't see what the problem is: as Dominic Kennedy reports in The Times : So what if I copied work says Sir Andrew Motion, Shakespeare did all the time . Motion belittles both Ben Shephard...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Shephard said that Andrew Motion's poem An Equal Voice, a stitching together of the voices of several generations of shellshocked soldiers which was published in the Guardian on Saturday, draws heavily from his history of medical psychiatry A War of Nerves....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Military historian claiming that 'found' poem published in the Guardian makes unfair use of his work has 'got the wrong end of the stick', says former poet laureate The military historian who accused Andrew Motion of plagiarism has "got the wrong end of the stick", the former poet laureate said today. Ben Shephard said that Motion's poem An Equal Voice, a stitching together of the...
War Poetry (Free subscription) | yesterday
To mark Remembrance Day, Andrew Motion has published 'An Equal Voice' --- a 'found poem' about shellshock --- in The Guardian . Today he stands accused of improper behaviour by military historian Ben Shephard: What Motion actually stitched together were 17 passages from my book A War of Nerves : the ‘voices from a variety of sources’ were not ‘found’ by Motion, but by...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This is a literary misunderstanding. It seems harsh to describe what Andrew Motion has done as plagiarism — particularly when he acknowledged his sources. That said, Ben Shephard, the historian upon whose work he largely drew, is clearly dismayed: what went wrong?
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In this 'found poem' for Remembrance Day, Andrew Motion stitches together the words of several generations of shellshocked soldiers from the first world war to the present Doctors, historians and other experts have documented the effects of shellshock – thanks to them, we know that the term covers a multitude of ailments, and is the result of far more than just shells going off. But, as Ben...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... representing Scotland in the 100m and 400m hurdles.The awards ceremony was hosted by GMTV's Ben Shephard and Something for the Weekend lottery presenter Jenni Falconer. Pop star Jessica Taylor presented awards to Vic Reeves and Nancy Sorrell as the nation's favourite celebrity specs wearers, while Vicar of Dibley and Royle Family actress Liz Smith was given the Services to Specs award.
