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Originally Posted by Rory Waterman
Duffy's a fine poet, and she writes real poems too. She has a genuine readership and children as well as adults like her (or are told to at school, at least). She's an extremely good choice. But who would have dared to select a man? What part does box-ticking politics have to play in selecting a modern Laureate?
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Honestly, I don't think that had anything to do with it. There was another guy who was all the "standard" things - and he was as much up for winning it as Duffy was.