In a poem by this author the speaker tells the reader she “made quite sure” a wolf spotted her for the sake of “poetry.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet whose speaker takes an axe to the wolf in “Little Red-Cap.” She included a poem in the same collection about Shakespeare’s wife who holds “him in the casket of my widow’s head.”
ANSWER: Carol Ann Duffy (The collection is The World’s Wife. The second poem is “Anne Hathaway.”)
[10m] Carol Ann Duffy was the first woman to occupy this position. In 2019, Simon Armitage succeeded her in this position.
ANSWER: British Poet Laureate [or Poet Laureate of the UK; accept Poet Laureate of England; prompt on Poet Laureate by asking “of which country?”]
[10e] Aside from writing poetry, Armitage also translated a middle English poem in which this character, not yet a member of King Arthur’s Roundtable, returns to finish a beheading game with the Green Knight started at Christmas.
ANSWER: Gawain [or Sir Gawain]
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