[New-Poetry] What Are Odds Quoted for Armitage and Duffy at theLondon Bookmakers?

[Anny Ballardini]

what a lot of chit chat. Is it so important, I am asking myself in this moment, to know who sleeps with whom and for how long? There was a sonnet by Shakespeare that said more or less the following:
In all the women I loved I have always looked for you.
(Which might be another lie)
I am sure our English members know the number of the sonnet in question.
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  http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article3962770.ece
  From The TimesMay 20, 2008
  With good rhyme - and reason
  Hilary Rose 

  As job descriptions go, writing poems for the monarch doesn't seem too arduous. The Poet Laureate's pay isn't great (less than £20,000 a year) but it's a top title that would look good on a business card, should poets laureate have such a thing, and you get to muse publicly on matters of national import, such as the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Whether Carol Ann Duffy wants the 400-year-old title, which she is widely tipped to be offered, is another matter. 

  Duffy, 52, and her fellow poet Simon Armitage, who is also in the running for the post next year, were passed over ten years ago in favour of Andrew Motion. At the time this was rumoured to be because he was thought too young, and she was too “unconventional”, for which read that she was a single mother in a lesbian relationship. Now, she is still a single mother, but her daughter is nearly a teenager, and her lesbian relationship has ended, which evidently makes her more acceptable. 
  Who cares? 
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