poet laureate
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And yet here comes Simon Armitage, the poet laureate of the U.K., with his stunning new verse translation, not as a vandal of antiquity but as a lucid accomplice to its endurance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Ancient, patriarchal and oracular, Tennyson was not merely the poet laureate of England; he was, like his queen, a symbol of the British Empire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Glasgow's poet laureate Jim Carruth says the closure has also hit writers.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
A Utah state poet laureate pleaded his Republican senator, John Curtis, to protect funding for the arts.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025
We named our new daughter Zindziswa, after the daughter of the poet laureate of the Xhosa people, Samuel Mqhayi, who had inspired me so many years before at Healdtown.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
