News at Eleven (Back Page): A seasonal verse by the new poet laureate

Carol Ann Duffy, commissioned exclusively for Radio Times.

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On the first day of Christmas,
a buzzard on a branch.

from Radio Times: The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy
also The Sunday Times: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy uses Christmas verse to attack British society
also Telegraph: Carol Ann Duffy is the not-a-lot-of-laughs Poet Laureate

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