{"id":1570,"date":"2009-05-04T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/sarah-boyles-sister-becomes-first-female-poet-laureate-of-uk\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T18:01:39","slug":"sarah-boyles-sister-becomes-first-female-poet-laureate-of-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/04\/sarah-boyles-sister-becomes-first-female-poet-laureate-of-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Boyle&#8217;s Sister Becomes First Female UK Poet Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Amazing this has not happened yet in all of British history. Amazing. -Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/may\/01\/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate\" target=\"_blank\">from the UK Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia; line-height: 29px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-size: 26px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Carol Ann Duffy becomes first female poet laureate<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #666666; font-size: 1.333em; line-height: 1.25; width: 450px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px\" class=\"stand-first-alone\" id=\"stand-first\">Duffy takes poetry&#8217;s most prestigious job, succeeding Andrew Motion, as a standard-bearer for women poets<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; position: relative; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-size: 0.86em; line-height: 1.25; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 36px; border-color: #d1008b\" class=\"article-attributes\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/alisonflood\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Alison Flood}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Alison Flood}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Alison Flood<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">guardian.co.uk<\/a>,\t Friday 1 May 2009 10.02 BST<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"history\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/may\/01\/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate#history-byline\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" classname=\"rollover historylink\" id=\"historylink-byline\" class=\"rollover historylink\">Article history<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/About\/General\/2009\/4\/30\/1241084000343\/Carol-Ann-Duffy-004.jpg\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" alt=\"Carol Ann Duffy\" height=\"272\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #666666; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px\" class=\"caption\">&#8216;I look on it as recognition of the great women poets we now have writing&#8217; &#8230; Carol Ann Duffy. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred years of male domination came to an end today with the election of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/carol-ann-duffy\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Carol Ann Duffy<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/poet-laureate\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">poet laureate<\/a>. Duffy, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/apr\/30\/poet-laureate-carol-ann-duffy\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" title=\"Carol Ann Duffy tipped for poet laureate role\">widely-tipped favourite for the post<\/a>, only agreed to accept the post ahead of poets Simon Armitage and Roger McGough because &#8220;they hadn&#8217;t had a woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Woman&#8217;s Hour this morning on Radio 4, she revealed that she had thought &#8220;long and hard&#8221; about accepting the offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was purely because they hadn&#8217;t had a woman,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I look on it as recognition of the great women poets we now have writing, like Alice Oswald.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/may\/01\/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate\" target=\"_blank\">click to read complete article at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing this has not happened yet in all of British history. Amazing. -Editor from the UK Guardian Carol Ann Duffy becomes first female poet laureate Duffy takes poetry&#8217;s most prestigious job, succeeding Andrew Motion, as a standard-bearer for women poets Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, Friday 1 May 2009 10.02 BST Article history &#8216;I look on it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}