Queen's birthday honours list: the arts
Trio of Britain's best-known poets get gongs
There is a little poets' corner on the list of honourees, with a trio of Britain's best-known writers in the genre receiving gongs. Wendy Cope – known for her witty touch and once voted by BBC Radio 4 listeners as their choice to follow Ted Hughes as poet laureate (she didn't) – is awarded an OBE, while Simon Armitage, 47, the UK's official millennium poet in 2000, and Michael Longley, 71, the influential poet and commentator on the arts from Belfast, both receive CBEs.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 12 June, 2010
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