Tuesday, July 25, 2006

News at Eleven: It should, I think,

be an open commission: open, that is, to any poet with a mind to write on national issues.

Under this arrangement, the laureate would become a compiler, rather than a writer, of poetry, his principal task being to assemble each year an anthology of the nation's finest "laureate" poetry.

from The Australian: Patronage and the poem

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