[New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels

[jforjames at aol.com]

Robin, you are quoting Michael, and?not me. But carry on...as always insightful and entertaining.
Finnegan

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From: Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Fri, 1 May 2009 9:35 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Carol Ann Duffy gets the laurels


From: jforjames at aol.com?
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Not so different from Wendy Cope, who rejected the post (wants it abolished) or from Philip Larkin (also rejected it), who many consider the finest English poet of the second half of the last century - or, for that matter, from Emily Dickinson.?
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As a point of information, Wendy Cope didn't reject the post, since she was never offered it. (Apart from anything else, she doesn't have much of a body of work behind her.)?
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Some time ago, she said she wouldn't accept it if she were offered it. (I could say the same thing.)?
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As to Larkin, I suspect he had to be offered it (even though the Powers That Be knew he'd turn it down).?
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? And now we have Carol Anne Duffy for ten years ...?
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? :-(((((?
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? (Oh well, at the worst, she's a better poet than Andrew Motion. Which, admittedly, isn't saying much.)?
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U.A.Fanthorpe must be spinning in her grave.?
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? Possible women laureates??
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Anne Stevenson (or is she Technically American?)?
Libby Houston?
Liz Lochead?
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? -- Robin?
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