News at Eleven: When winter comes to Bluff, poet Cilla McQueen

usually just hunkers down in her draughty, freezing home and keeps on writing.

So the newly announced poet laureate's first idea for the $100,000 windfall coming her way with the role is simple: "Pay the electricity bill."

For 20 years, the 60-year-old has eked out a living from poems and occasional teaching.

from Stuff: Poetry paying the bills for laureate

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