News at Eleven: Carol Ann Duffy has said that she accepted

the laureateship on behalf of all women poets. This is a serious and unsentimental gesture from someone who has been supportive of emerging poets for more than twenty years. One of her first acts has been to showcase her female contemporaries in the Guardian and she has donated her £5,000 annual stipend towards a new prize.

She is, of course, a poet rather than a 'woman poet', although when asked about this label in an interview last week, she said she had no problem with it.

from Granta: The Public Poet

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