LONDON, May 1 (UPI) -- Carol Ann Duffy, whose poetry has "stretched our imaginations," has been named Britain's first female poet laureate, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
LONDON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- British poet Wendy Cope, considered a frontrunner for the post of Poet Laureate, has ruled herself out and said the position should be abolished.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A controversial new biography of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes shows a dark side of the literary great that few have known, the Scotsman reported.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- Donald Hall has been named America's new poet laureate, succeeding Ted Kooser, who has held the position since 2004.
WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- Ted Kooser, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry last week, has won a second term as the nation's Poet Laureate.
