Sherry Chandler » The downside of this laureate bidness
The downside of this laureate bidness
How do you solve a problem like “Camilla”?
If you are Andrew Motion, Britain’s poet laureate and the man charged with producing a cheerful commemorative poem about Prince Charles’s impending marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, none of the obvious rhymes - vanilla, flotilla, Godzilla - seem appropriate, somehow.
Nor would you want to dwell on the pre-wedding mishaps that have filled Britons with such unbecoming Schadenfreude in recent days: the panicked confusion over the time and place of the ceremony; the fact that the groom’s parents will not attend; the lingering specter of Charles’s dead ex-wife, looming like Banquo at the feast.
from the NYTimes. Registration required but still free at this time. Thanks to TR for the link
(Cross posted at the Green River Writers blog.)
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1. Sherry Chandler&hellip replies at 16th May 2005, 4:54 pm :
[...] e Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. You may remember that the poem had been the cause of some speculation in the NYTimes. We are pleased to note that Mr. Motion resisted the temptation to rhym [...]
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