He beat off competition from the bookies' favourite and the poet laureate to win his first major award.
Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, has written the words for a new song with music by composer Orlando Gough.
Timrod has been called the poet laureate of the Confederacy.
The children's laureate prize was actually the brainchild of Morpurgo and his friend the late poet laureate Ted Hughes, but it was not set up until after the death of Hughes.
The late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has won the TS Eliot prize for his work, Birthday Letters, a personal collection of verse letters to former wife and poet Sylvia Plath.
Desperate for advice, I wrote to my dear friend Donald Hall, the former poet laureate.
But he has long held dual Irish citizenship, and his father, the English poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, was born in Ireland.
The Massachusetts-born poet was granted the literati title of US Poet Laureate in 1949 and 1950.
Ryan, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, writes frequently for The New Yorker and The Atlantic.
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Check out the very readable new verse translation of Beowulf from Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate.
In the spirit of that failed experiment, I reached out this week to Billy Collins, the U.S. poet laureate from 2001 to 2003.
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It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
The Mattatuck Museum now has an exhibit dedicated to Fortune, including a poem, called The Manumission Requiem, by Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson.
Actor Jeremy Irons read Last Post by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy during the service to recognise military and civilian contributions to the conflict.
As National Poet for Wales, when Alan Hewson asked me and Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, to read at the festival of architecture, we gladly agreed.
Poet Laureate Ted Hughes was patron of the award until his death last year.
Hughes was made Poet Laureate in 1984 and remained in the post until his death from cancer in 1998.
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion said it was "the prize most poets want to win".
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Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, who is the chair of the judges, said: "In a year which saw a record number of submissions, my fellow judges and I are delighted with a shortlist which sparkles with energy, passion and freshness and which demonstrates the range and variety of poetry being published in the UK".
Former UK Poet Laureate John Betjeman is alleged to have described the view as the finest in Europe.
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Ex-poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion said "townies in the countryside" were "gutting" rural communities.
Speakers will include Kennedy, who is the honorary chairwoman of the Grand Central Centennial Committee, as well as actress Cynthia Nixon, former Mets star Keith Hernandez, former poet laureate Billy Collins and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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