Not stuffiness really. Amitage won because he was northern, lefty and the darling of the Guardian readers. But they are philistines, fashionable philistines, so I suppose it is stuffiness of a sort.
A woman is the Poet Laureate here. You must have noticed. Her poetry has gone downhill IMO BECAUSE she is so intent on being a woman poet. Alicia, by contrast, is a fine poet who happens to be a woman.
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