New Poet Laureate To Be Announced
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8027346.stm
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A new Poet Laureate will be revealed at an event in Manchester later today. Carol Ann Duffy is the favourite to be the successor to Andrew Motion and would be the first Scot and the first woman to be appointed to the post.
Bookmakers stopped taking bets this week although Yorkshire poet Simon Armitage is seen as a strong outsider.
The poet laureate is appointed by the Queen, on the advice of the government (Oh No), and part of their remit is to write poems to commemorate major state occasions and royal events.
Bookmakers stopped taking bets this week although Yorkshire poet Simon Armitage is seen as a strong outsider.
The poet laureate is appointed by the Queen, on the advice of the government (Oh No), and part of their remit is to write poems to commemorate major state occasions and royal events.
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