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  The UK’s Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, has written a poem to commemorate the Duke of Edinburgh’s passing. The Prince famously loathed sycophants, which must have been a hefty burden in itself given his position in the crosshairs of the nation’s most devoted bottom-feeders. Accordingly, the poet compensated for this with wide spadefuls of pretension: Last…

  Max Frances

  Apr 17, 2021

  Books, Society, Writing

  Amanda Gorman, Elegy, Funeral, Literature, Poem, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Prince Philip, Simon Armitage, The Patriarchs, The Royal Family, Words, Writing