and a ragbag of wild-card contenders: performance poets, sound poets, a neuro-psychologist--and a couple who aren't poets at all. It's a world away from last year, when a genuine race between Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and Ruth Padel, a well-regarded confessional poet and great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin, swerved off the rails to become a train wreck the like of which had never happened in the post's 300-year history.
from Olivia Cole: London Evening Standard: Time for some poetic justice at Oxford
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