Poor Andrew Motion

It's a tough job. Motion has to write a poem for the upcoming royal wedding. Here's a clever article from the NYTimes including this bit: "But the royal poems invariably attract the most attention, and the most sniping. Poets as a group tend to be thin-skinned, jealous and suspicious, and the elevation of one to such a public post invariably opens the door to everyone else's rude comments."

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