Wendy Cope: 'I don't want to be laureate'
Wendy Cope (right): bestselling poet
The 400-year-old institution of the poet laureate, a post held by Ben Jonson, William Wordsworth and John Betjeman, has been labelled "ridiculous" and "archaic" by Wendy Cope.
Cope, one of the country's most widely read and best-loved poets, is seen as a frontrunner for the position after the expected retirement of Andrew Motion next year. If appointed, Cope would be the first woman laureate.
But that now seems unlikely. Answering a question at this year's Guardian Hay festival, Cope told her audience that the laureateship is something we could do without.
The full story at The Guardian online.
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