Jenni Murray gave the news when she was introducing Carol Ann Duffy on Womans Hour as the new Poet Laureate
So a sad tinge to an otherwise very good day. I really am pleased that the job has gone to Carol Ann Duffy, though not on the grounds that It's time we had a woman – a dispiriting justification, bound to raise questions about someone’s real suitability
Not in this case
I was genuinely impressed by the way the new Laureate made a link, during the interview, between the idea & function of poetry & monarchy in the human imagination
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