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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Oxford Professor of Poetry

Posted on 26 May 2009

Scandal amid the Dreaming Spires

My pleasure in Ruth Padel's accession to the position of Oxford Professor of Poetry was premature. It seems that she was the person who set the smear campaign against Derek Walcott into motion. In a statement to media last night, she had the following to say: I genuinely believe that I did nothing intentional that …

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