{"id":4009,"date":"2009-05-01T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2009-05-01T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:45:49","slug":"the-new-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-new-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol Anne Duffy, a bisexual 53 year old is the new Poet Laureate:<\/a><\/p>\n

Her predecessors stretch in an illustrious line all the way back to 1688.<\/p>\n

But as she was appointed Poet Laureate yesterday, Carol Ann Duffy, the first woman to hold the post, insisted she will be carving out her own path.<\/p>\n

Verses on demand for royal occasions, she declared, are simply not her style.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t have to write anything about anything if I don’t want to,’ she told Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour programme.<\/p>\n

Yesterday her appointment to the ten-year \u00a35,000-a-year post was welcomed by Gordon Brown.<\/p>\n

‘She is a truly brilliant modern poet who has stretched our imaginations by putting the whole range of human experiences into lines that capture the emotions perfectly,’ he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lines like:<\/p>\n

‘Today I am going to kill something. Anything\/I am tired of being ignored and today\/I am going to play God.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect that has captured Gordon Brown’s emotions perfectly considering his plummeting popularity.<\/p>\n

One of my favourite poems is “Stuffed”; here is an excerpt – plagiarised from The Idiot’s Guide to Taxidermy:<\/p>\n

I put two yellow peepers in an owl.
\nWow. I fix the grin of Crocodile.
\nSpiv. I sew the slither of an eel.
\nI jerk, kick-start, the back hooves of a mule.
\nWild. I hold the red rag to a bull.
\nMad. I spread the feathers of a gull.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have it on good authority that the Queen is secretly relieved that Duffy won’t be putting pen to paper for royal occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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