Nobody knows how he got the butt of sack. They wanted to give it to Seamus Heaney but they couldn't because he is an Irish citizen. They should have given it to Ursula Fanthorpe but perhaps she didn't want it. Let me spell it out. I do not think everything that comes out of Africa is rubbish. It was a (perhaps unfortunate) shorthand for the sort of thing Motion will like. He will pick an African for non-poetry reasons. Or I think he will. If they must have a Poet Laureate the present one would be better.
I don't think you get the sack these days. Or was it Malmsey? You can drown people in Malmsey. Richard iii had his brother, the Duke of Clarence, drowned in Malmsey. Supposedly.
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