Ursula Fanthorpe News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from Ursula fanthorpe. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In Ursula Fanthorpe Today - Breaking & Trending Today

Peggy Poole Award – The Poetry Society

Peggy Poole Award – The Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from poetrysociety.org.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.

United States , United Kingdom , United Kingdom General , Saiqa Khushnood , Michael Symmons Roberts , Leila Romaya , Yvonne Reddick , Mark Pajak , Maria Isakova Bennett , Ursula Fanthorpe , Vona Groarke , Ted Hughes , Deryn Rees Jones , Malika Booker , Paul Farley , Stephen Spender , Peggy Poole , Chelsea School Of Art , American Academy Of Arts Letters , Liverpool Dead Good Poet Society , National Poetry Competition , Echo Chamber , Peggy Poole Award , North West , Radio Merseyside , First Heard ,

From the NS archive: Just the poet to make us yawn again

From the NS archive: Just the poet to make us yawn again
24 May 1999: Ted Hughes made the Poet Laureateship seem exciting. But for his successor New Labour has gone to a tired, old, Oxbridge voice.
The position of Poet Laureate in England – that is, the national poet ostensibly chosen by Buckingham Palace, but in fact, in recent decades, nominated by the Government and approved by the Queen – has long been controversial for its intermingling of art and politics. Several notable names – Walter Scott and Philip Larkin among them – have turned down the offer (which offers in exchange an annual stipend and a large quantity of sherry). Ted Hughes had held the position for 14 years until his death in 1998; his successor was to be appointed by a New Labour government. Michael Glover, writing here in the New Statesman in 1999, speculates that this was the opportunity for a “People’s Poet”, or at least one more modern than the man who ended up in the job: Oxford-edu ....

United States , Buckingham Palace , United Kingdom , Seamus Heaney , Philip Larkin , William Burroughs , Derek Walcott , Chris Meade , Michael Glover , John Holroyd , Walter Scott , Andrew Motion , Ursula Fanthorpe , Carol Ann Duffy , Ted Hughes , Stephen Spender , Tony Harrison , Oxbridge England University College , University Of East Anglia , English At Hull University , Arts Council , Poetry Society , Royal Society Of Literature , Poet Laureate , New Labour , New Statesman ,