2. The Laureate Roles: Three Poets and a Professor

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation 3
6. 2. The Laureate Roles: Three Poets and a Professor 15
7. 3. Gillian Clarke: From Woman Poet to National Poet 35
8. 4. Paula Meehan: Poetry across Boundaries 71
9. 5. Liz Lochhead: Performing Scotland 100
10. 6. Carol Ann Duff y: ‘The edge has become the centre’ 121
11. 7. Answering Back: Poetry in Conversation with Wordsworth, Burns and Yeats 144
12. 8. National Poets and the National Curriculum 167
13. 9. Brexit and Britannia 194
14. 10. Postscript for the Future 208
15. Works Cited 212
16. Index 229