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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Steve H on July 19, 2023, 07:39:13 AM

Title: Choosing the poet laureate.
Post by: Steve H on July 19, 2023, 07:39:13 AM
In 1984 9r 1999, I rooted for Roger McGough: not, perhaps, Britain's greatest poet, but a gifted communicator and populariser of poetry. I was very pleased when Carol Ann Duffy, my favourite living poet, got the job in 2009, and she excelled in the role, doing much to popularise poetry by roping in other poets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66224984
Title: Re: Choosing the poet laureate.
Post by: Nearly Sane on July 27, 2023, 09:15:39 AM
It's a very odd role
Title: Re: Choosing the poet laureate.
Post by: Sebastian Toe on July 27, 2023, 08:21:15 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on July 27, 2023, 09:15:39 AM
It's a very odd role
..yet good for the soul
Of the one that's selected
Perhaps though not those rejected!