Tuesday, June 03, 2008

News at Eleven: Answering a question at this year's

Guardian Hay festival, [Wendy] Cope told her audience that the laureateship is something we could do without.

"I think it is an archaic post. It has ridiculous expectations attached to it, which do not come from the palace or from Whitehall, but from the public and the media," she said.

from The Guardian: Wendy Cope: 'I don't want to be laureate'

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