News at Eleven: I believe that the continuance of the laureateship

acknowledges that poetry is vital to the imagining of what Britain has been, what it is and what it might yet become. The laureateship shines a light not on one poet, but on many, as Andrew Motion has so perfectly demonstrated in his setting-up of the Poetry Archive. Someone, however, one of the tribe, has to tend the flame. And I suppose, gazing into that flickering flame, one realises that no poet truly knows where poems come from; that no poet has any guarantee, finishing a poem, that they'll ever write another poem again; that true poems make their own occasions.

from The Guardian: Sisters in poetry
also BBC News: Duffy on becoming Poet Laureate
also The Guardian: Carol Ann Duffy becomes first female poet laureate
also The Guardian: Portraits of the poet laureate through the ages
also The Guardian: Premonitions by Carol Ann Duffy
also Daily Mirror: Carol Ann Duffy: A previously unpublished poem on the nature of her work
also The Daily Mirror: Exclusive: poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poems for children
also The Guardian: New work from Carol Ann Duffy's favourite women poets
also BBC News: Poets advise new Laureate--in verse
also The Guardian: 'I still haven't written the best I can'
also The Independent: 'It was my daughter who made me accept Poet's job'

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