Poet laureate lays out ideas to give the country an official home for the practice, in line with other ‘national art forms’The art world has the National Gallery; drama has the National Theatre. Now poet laureate Simon Armitage is putting plans in motion for a National Poetry Centre “headquarters” in Read more
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