Andrew Motion warms to poem about climate change

telegraph.co.uk

May. 2, 2009

While all eyes are on Carol Ann Duffy his intriguing successor as Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has quietly been composing five sonnets about climate change which will be set to music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies the Master of the Queen's Music.

Duffy named Britain's poet laureate

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.

Poet: Abolish Poet Laureate position

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.

Oldest British WWI survivor to be honored

LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A 110-year-old British veteran of World War I will be honored by a musical composition for being the oldest living survivor of the war, the composers say.

British poet wrestles with rhyming Camilla

LONDON, April 7 (UPI) -- Britain's poet laureate, Andrew Motion, is in a royal wedding dilemma trying to craft a commemorative poem with a non-offensive rhyme for Camilla.

Scotland has a poet laureate of its own

GLASGOW, Scotland, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Scotland broke with 336 years of tradition Monday and named its first ever poet laureate, the Times reported in its Tuesday edition.