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Andrew Motion Reads Alice Oswald

The New Yorker: Poetry

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I've Been a Poet Laureate M Off the U. K. For Ten Years, I Think, and I Could See the Exit Sign, You Know?

Poet laureate was 'tough' job, says andrew motion. Worked for ten years so he could see the exit sign. Set up archive of poets reading their own work that now has quarter of a million people using it every month. Says there is respect for poetry in england because we are country of shakespeare.

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