| Bisexual Poet Appointed Poet Laureate of Britain |
[01 Jul 2009|08:41am] |
Openly bisexual poet Carol Ann Duffy appointed Poet Laureate of Britain
Beside being the first openly bisexual poet to hold the post, she is also both the first woman and the first Scottish poet to do so. She is also an acclaimed playwright. Duffy is a single mother who lives with her 14 year old daughter Ella and has a pet spaniel. The post has been held by literary luminaries William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Duffy took the position on condition that she not be obligated to write poems for royal or state occasions, the original purpose of the post. And her first poem as laureate entitled "Politics" blasted parliament with a cutting commentary on the MPs' expenses scandal, in the form of a 14 line sonnet.
You can read more about her in the Daily Mail and Wikipedia. Schizophrenically, in both articles, she is referred to as both bisexual and lesbian. Probably because of a recent same-sex relationship.
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