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What's it like being Poet Laureate for a city?

Does it have its own rewards, or is it just a matter of trials and tribulations?

Birmingham has a proud lineage of laureates, if not quite stretching back as far as Tennyson, then at least to the last century, with Brian Lewis as the first, then David Hart, Sibyl Ruth, Simon Pitt, Roshan Doug, Roi Kwabena Julie Boden, Roz Goddard and now till next autumn, Don Barnard.

Thanks, Roz, for your contributions to Lit-Net which will move across to the Laureate Showcase before long.

Don is continuing the tradition set by Roz, as the first six entries below show - his latest poem Drinking Moonshine has something more than a kick.

Poetry City Tour four national poets, four Bham Poet Laureates.. by Don Barnard - 01-Apr-05 (views:11834)

A Week Last Month in the Life of a Poet Laureate by Don Barnard - 21-Mar-05 (views:12091)

Listening to the band by Don Barnard - 21-Mar-05 (views:12637)

Still Here, Still Writing January 05 by Don Barnard - 06-Jan-05 (views:11119)

Drinking Moonshine by Don Barnard - 06-Jan-05 (views:12526)

"By ‘eck, that were a good ‘un" - to Fred Dibnah by Lit-Net Ed - 12-Nov-04 (views:11821)

One Month Down, Eleven to Go by Don Barnard - 12-Nov-04 (views:11984)

Supermarket Blues by Don Barnard by Nikki Bi - 20-Oct-04 (views:11463)

Don Barnard - Birmingham Poet Laureate 2004/2005 by Nikki Bi - 20-Oct-04 (views:11426)

Learning and Me - a poem by Roz Goddard - 05-Jul-04 (views:12655)

This Laureate Life 3 - Glastonbury to Iceland via Ledbury by Roz Goddard - 27-Jun-04 (views:11883)

Reading With Rose - a poem by Roz Goddard - 26-Apr-04 (views:12180)

This Laureate Life - Part 2 by Roz Goddard - 26-Apr-04 (views:12963)

This Laureate Life by Lit-Net Ed - 03-Mar-04 (views:12403)

Some Of Us by Roz Goddard - 03-Mar-04 (views:12913)

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