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Lesley Riddoch: Poet for Queen and country must walk a fine line

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Published Date: 04 May 2009
THE redoubtable Carol Ann Duffy faces a challenge. Unless royalty doesn't marry, procreate or pass on in the next decade the new Poet Laureate will have to celebrate the lives of the Windsors.
Not easy for a woman who said "no self-respecting poet" would write a poem for Edward and Sophie's wedding in 1999.

This weekend, though, Ms Duffy's thinking appears to have changed.

"Apparently I said that. I think we are a bit more grown up...



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  • Last Updated: 03 May 2009 9:48 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
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Mercutio,

FALKIRK 04/05/2009 00:44:39
"Just for a handful of silver she left us
Just for a riband to stick in her coat"
With apologies to Robert Browning
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Geomac 1,

Scotland 04/05/2009 17:13:43
Unsurprising number of comments on this drivel. I wonder just how many people read Riddoch's article every wee (Ed - might be worth a survey??)
I only read it to get myself fired up and as an excuse to give vent to my loathing of anachronistic, whinging and chip on shoulder utterings by self proclaimed "personalities".
Is there no subject that she feels unable to comment upon? This class ridden, anti monarchist and egalitarian rubbish is long largely extinct, but Riddoch continues to perpetuate her childish and long outdated views.
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Florestan,

abuja 04/05/2009 20:46:55
Spot on Geomac. She is clearly yesterday's wummin,with her tedious hand-me-down leftist sh^t. Can't we have something interesting for a change? The Scotsman isn't beholden to these has-beens.

 

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