tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post300495529483411865..comments2024-02-05T15:01:44.563-05:00Comments on Cleveland Poetics: a place for cleveland's writers and readers: No Longer Out of Fashion: UK Names First Female (and first openly gay) Poet Laureatemichael salingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14717310933948991992noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-70590536643388162142009-05-05T18:09:00.000-04:002009-05-05T18:09:00.000-04:00Nooses in the news: New Poet Lariat!Nooses in the news: New Poet Lariat!John B. Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497208622485346132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-11216618395670178912009-05-05T17:56:00.000-04:002009-05-05T17:56:00.000-04:00Poor laureates! Look what the last one was driven ...Poor laureates! Look what the last one was driven to. No wonder he resigned.<br /><br />Andrew Motion's 'Recession' poem: <br /><br />Poor Alistair Darling's new budget<br />Invites us to listen and judge it <br />As though we'd agree <br />It was better to be <br />Au fait with hard truth and not fudge it. <br />But some difficult questions remain <br />When our pensions are all down the drain <br />Dole figures sky high <br />Debt figures awry <br />And high tax on what extras we gain. <br />Whose fault can we honestly say <br />Must it be for things being this way? <br />Banker pigs in the trough? <br />MPs? Sure enough. <br />And ourselves – what role did we play? <br />I'll just finish this short doggerel <br />With a personal comment as well <br />The duty of writing <br />Lines sharp and exciting <br />On this – it ain't mine, but my heirs as 'PL'.Shelley Cherninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10132631136708521168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641117771707843067.post-48784225245008991012009-05-05T13:16:00.000-04:002009-05-05T13:16:00.000-04:00Actually the version of this story in my local new...Actually the version of this story in my local newspaper (the Elyria <I>Chronicle-Telegram</I>) is longer than the online version I've linked you to above. After posting, I discovered what might be an even better article about Duffy's appointment: <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/01/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate" REL="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/01/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate</A>.John B. Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497208622485346132noreply@blogger.com