News at Eleven: [Paula Claire] is protesting over the fact

that she was described as a "performer and artist" in Oxford's announcement of the 11 candidates for the post, omitting the fact that she is a poet. The "last straw", she said, was a flysheet published last week in Oxford's Gazette, the official journal of the university. supporting Hill. It called Hill, the frontrunner for the election, "quite simply a giant" and "the finest living poet in English today".

from The Guardian: Oxford poetry professor candidate withdraws as controversy erupts again

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