- the
holder will
write verse for
significant national occasions. The
laureateship dates to 1616 when a
pension was
provided to Ben Jonson, but the first...
- biographer, who was Poet
Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
During the
period of his
laureateship,
Motion founded the
Poetry Archive, an
online resource of
poems and audio...
-
William Wordsworth (7
April 1770 – 23
April 1850) was an
English Romantic poet who, with
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
helped to
launch the
Romantic Age in...
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disabilities and illustration. The aim of the
Waterstones Children’s
Laureateship is to
celebrate and
promote creativity,
storytelling and
inspiring all...
-
youngest recipient to date. He was also
sounded out for the
British Poet
Laureateship and
several times for a knighthood, but
declined both.
Following his...
-
Julia Catherine Donaldson CBE (née Shields; born 16
September 1948) is an
English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is...
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Kathryn Stripling Byer (November 25, 1944 – June 5, 2017), also
called Kay Byer, was an
American poet and teacher. She was
named by
Governor Mike Easley...
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social and
political opportunism that was
thought to have
gained him the
laureateship over far
better poets. He rose to
ignominious fame when he
became the...
-
awarded a
Clarkson Laureateship,
including Ursula Franklin,
William Davis, and Mary Eberts. The
awarding of
Clarkson Laureateships was
approved by the...
- and
reappointed for a second, two-year term in 2023. As part of her
laureateship, she
wrote an
original poem, “In
Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa...
