Which former Poet Laureate became the President for the Campaign to Protect Rural England in 2012?
"Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family"
"Protection of Rural England and the National Trust, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. After suffering from back problems, he took up yoga. His other hobbies are jazz, world music and rambling. He is a member of the Athenaeum Club. Jonathan Baume Jonathan Edward Baume (born 13 July 1953 in Wakefield) was General Secretary of the FDA from 1997 until 2012 and a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 2001 to 2012. He was appointed as a Civil Service Commissioner in April 2012 and is a Council member of the Advisory,"
"Sarah Wardle Sarah Wardle (born 1969) is an English poet. Sarah Wardle was born in London in 1969, and educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied Classics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and English at Sussex University. She was President of Oxford University Conservative Association during Trinity term, 1989. In 1999, she won the Geoffrey Dearmer Memorial Prize and Poetry Review’s new poet of the year award. Her first collection of poetry, ""Fields Away"", was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2003, and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection). Her poems have been published in, among others, ""The"
"Simon Armitage Simon Robert Armitage, (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. On 19 June 2015, Armitage was elected to the part-time position of Oxford Professor of Poetry, succeeding Geoffrey Hill. Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire and grew up in the village of Marsden. Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic; his first poetry collection was called ""Human Geography"" (1988). He was a post-graduate student at the University of Manchester where"
"Award 2012 and was serialised as a BBC Radio 4 ""Book of the Week"". His most recent collection is ""The Dark Film"", which was a Poetry Book Society Choice in 2012. In 2009 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2012. He currently lives in Lancashire and is Professor of Poetry at Lancaster University. As Editor Paul Farley Paul Farley, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster. Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea"
"health conferences. He began his career as a performer in 1992, giving live performances to audiences in the South West of England. He has since performed across the country at conferences, cabarets, colleges and literary festivals. He is the President of the Exeter and East Devon branch of the charity Mind, and lives in Totnes. Harvey was appointed Official Wimbledon Championship Poet 2010. The job entailed coming out with a poem each day of the championship to entertain the spectators. The poems would also be available online and in podcast. Matt Harvey (poet) Matt Harvey is a British humourist and"
"and October 1892, there was a break of four years as a mark of respect; Tennyson's laureate poems ""Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"" and ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"" were particularly cherished by the Victorian public. Five poets, Thomas Gray, Samuel Rogers, Walter Scott, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, turned down the laureateship. The holder of the position as of 2018 is Carol Ann Duffy, who was appointed in May 2009 on a fixed ten-year term. The origins of the poet laureateship date back to 1616 when James I of England granted a pension to"
"Porritt became an honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Sussex in 2000. Porritt received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2001. In July 2008, he became an honorary graduate of the University of Exeter. On 9 February 2012 he became Chancellor of Keele University. Jonathon Porritt Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a leading British environmentalist and writer. He is known for his advocacy of the Green Party of England and Wales. Porritt frequently contributes to magazines, newspapers and books, and appears on radio and television. Jonathon Porritt was born in"
"and poetry, The Wilfred Owen Association was formed in 1989. Since its formation the Association has established permanent public memorials in Shrewsbury and Oswestry. In addition to readings, talks, visits and performances, it promotes and encourages exhibitions, conferences, awareness and appreciation of Owen's poetry. Peter Owen, Wilfred Owen’s nephew, was President of the Association until his death in July 2018. Dr Rowan Williams (Archbishop of Canterbury 2002–2012), Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie are Patrons. The Association presents a biennial Poetry Award to honour a poet for a sustained body of work that includes memorable war"
"Padel, resigned prior to filling the post. Simon Armitage, elected on 19 June 2015, is the current Professor of Poetry. The elections typically attract media attention and involve campaigning by proponents of quite diverse candidates. In the past, both practising poets and academic critics have been chosen. On 16 May 2009, Ruth Padel defeated the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra to become the first woman elected to the post since its inception in 1708. The Nobel Prize-Winning candidate Derek Walcott had withdrawn his candidacy, following what he called a “low and degrading” campaign against him, after ""The Sunday Times"" and ""Cherwell"""
"Competition in 2000. William Hampton (poet) William Hampton (born 1959 in Salford, Lancashire) is a British poet. William took a degree in Religion with Literature from Bristol University. Since then he has worked in magazine publishing, nature conservation and community care. He lives in Colchester, and works for Scope, the charity for people with cerebral palsy. William's first published poem was in ""The Rialto"". His work has appeared in various magazines, most recently ""Boomerang"" and the website devoted to ""Plumlive"". He came 3rd in the 2004 Cardiff International Competition, and won the 2004 Bridport Prize. He was in the anthology"
"apologised. Geraint Lloyd Owen Geraint Lloyd Owen (born 15 May 1941)is a Welsh-language poet, also known by his bardic name Geraint Llifon. He is a retired head teacher and is the Archdruid of the Gorsedd between 2016 and 2019. He was born in a farmhouse between Llandderfel and Sarnau, Meirionnydd, before moving to his mother's family home in Sarnau village. He attended the local school, then Ysgol Tŷ-tan-domen, Bala, and trained as a secondary-school teacher at the Heath College, Cardiff. He taught at Machynlleth. He won numerous local eisteddfod chairs, including Pontrhydfendigaid, Lampeter, Gŵyl Fawr Aberteifi (Cardigan), Powys and the"
"Jem Poster Jem Poster (born 1949) is a noted contemporary British poet and novelist. Poster has worked variously as an archaeologist for English Heritage, an administrator for Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, and as lecturer in English Literature with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He is a former fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Poster's poetry and prose have attracted widespread critical acclaim and he has won both the Cardiff Academi International Poetry Competition and the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition. Poster's poems and novels are informed by environmental and archaeological concerns and are characterised by a careful attention to"
"Year. She won a 2012 PEN Award for creative nonfiction with her collection of essays, ""A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet"" published in 2012 by W. W. Norton. In 2015, a volume of poems, """"A Woman Without A Country"""", was published by W. W. Norton. Former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, quoted from her poem """"The Emigrant Irish"""" in his address to the joint houses of the US Congress in May 2008. She is co-editor of ""The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms"" (with Mark Strand; W. W. Norton & Co., 2000). She also"
"Robert Minhinnick Robert Minhinnick (born 12 August 1952) is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator. He has won two Forward Prizes for Best Individual Poem and has received the Wales Book of the Year award a record three times (in 1993, 2006 and 2018). Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. An environmental campaigner, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and Sustainable Wales. His work deals with both Welsh and international themes. He has published seven poetry collections and several volumes"
"works both in the UK and the Middle East. William Sieghart William Matthew Timothy Stephen Sieghart (born 1960) is a British entrepreneur, publisher and philanthropist and the founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. He is the current chairman of the Somerset House Trust. Born in 1960, son of barrister Paul Sieghart, a human rights lawyer, campaigner, broadcaster and author, and Felicity Ann Sieghart, chairman of the National Association for Gifted Children, magistrate and later managing director of the Aldeburgh Cinema, William is the older brother of Mary Ann Sieghart. He was educated at Eton and St Anne's College, Oxford."
"John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him ""Glorious John"". Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson"
"and 2014, Henderson led on programming over 50 high-profile poetry events every year in London and South East England, together with a wide range of other poetry-related projects and activities, including short films, national poetry tours and public art commissions. After organising Poet in the City's successful transition to a new chief executive in April 2014, he remained as a trustee of the charity, and as its public art consultant, until April 2016. In 2007, Henderson became involved in the campaign to save the Regency property at 8 Royal College Street that had been occupied by the French poets Arthur"
"Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, and was performed at Portsmouth Cathedral by the London Mozart Players, the Portsmouth Grammar School chamber choir and the cathedral's choristers. The creation of the work was featured in ""A poem for Harry"", a BBC West documentary that was subsequently repeated on BBC Four. The programme won a gold medal at the New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotion Awards. On 18 July 2009, with the death of Henry Allingham, Patch became the oldest surviving veteran and also the oldest man in the United Kingdom. Patch was the last trench veteran of World War I."
"are (acted/published) and unless otherwise noted are taken from Scott's edition. John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him ""Glorious John"". Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen"
"and Ireland, and the Somerset Rare Plants Group. In April 2012, the botanist and poet participated in the exhibition at Bradbury Hall, Henleaze, Bristol, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. She is also a participant in the Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project, which was established in 1999 to protect the Bristol side of the Avon Gorge and Downs and to increase awareness of the site. On 24 May 2012, Houston, a research associate at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, received the H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London"
"Honours List that Hayward would be awarded a life peerage. He was created Baron Hayward, ""of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire"", on 28 September 2015. In June 2016, Hayward sponsored the Assisted Dying Bill 2016-17 in the House of Lords. In 2017, he revealed that he has been living with Multiple sclerosis. In December 2017 and January 2018, Lord Hayward appeared on Sky News and other media channels campaigning against the use of plastic wrapping of fruit and vegetables by supermarkets. Robert Hayward, Baron Hayward Robert Antony Hayward, Baron Hayward, (born 11 March 1949) is a British Conservative Party"
"governor Sir Francis Wyatt. Hugh Rowland Wyatt, CVO (born 18 November 1933) was the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex from 1999 to 2008. Wyatt is the direct ancestor of famous poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. Thomas Wyatt (poet) Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone, in Kent, though the family was originally from Yorkshire. His mother was Anne Skinner, and his father, Henry Wyatt, had been a Privy Councillor of Henry VII, and remained a"
"Greta Stoddart Greta Stoddart (born 1966) is an English poet. She is best known for her poetry collections, ""At Home in the Dark"" and ""Salvation Jane"". Stoddart was born in 1966 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. She spent her childhood in Oxford and Belgium. She studied mime in Paris and worked as a performer before becoming a full-time poet. She now teaches at Bath Spa University as well as the Poetry School in Exeter. Stoddart's first collection of poetry, ""At Home in the Dark"" was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection, ""Salvation Jane"" was"
"by Graham Henderson and was initially incubated within Poet in the City. Henderson was part of (and inherited) the previous campaign to save the property at 8 Royal College Street. For many years this was run by Gerry Harrison, a Camden councillor, during the process of which many celebrities have rallied to the cause, including the actor Simon Callow, the writers Julian Barnes, Lisa Appignanesi and Tracy Chevalier and the musician Patti Smith. In 2007 the house was bought and sympathetically restored by a new owner, Michael Corby. Committed to the historic identity of the property, he agreed in 2011"
"have been featured in the AQA English GCSE anthology since 2002, meaning that many students (aged 14–16) have studied his work for their GCSE English qualifications. Archival literary records consisting of ""letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of John Agard"" are held at Newcastle University Special Collections, in the Bloodaxe Books Archive. He lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with his partner, the Guyanese poet Grace Nichols. John Agard John Agard (born 21 June 1949 in British Guiana) is an Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's"
"Roger McGough Roger McGough CBE, FRSL (; born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme ""Poetry Please"", as well as performing his own poetry. McGough was one of the leading members of the Liverpool poets, a group of young poets influenced by Beat poetry and the popular music and culture of 1960s Liverpool. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the Poetry Society. Roger McGough was born in Litherland, Lancashire on the outskirts"
"Julian Turner Julian Turner (born 1955) is a British poet and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955. He now lives in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, with his partner and their daughter. He was educated at New College, Oxford (matriculated 1974) and Goldsmiths College, University of London. Turner was the Chief Executive of Leeds Mind until autumn 2010. His poems have been published in periodicals including ""Poetry London"", ""The Reater"", and ""The Realto"", and in ""The Ring of Words: Poems from the Daily Telegraph Arvon International Poetry Competition 1998"" (introduction by"
"a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2015 Birthday Honours. Hugh Duberly Sir (Archibald) Hugh Duberly (born 4 April 1942), is a British farmer, campaigner and politician. Sir Hugh was elected as an independent local councillor for Staughton in Huntingdonshire from 1979 until 2004. During that time, Sir Hugh was President of the Country Landowners' Association, serving from 1993 to 1995. Sir Hugh was a Commissioner of the Crown Estate for seven years between 2002 and 2009, when he was replaced by Gareth Baird. He is the President of the East of England Agricultural Society for 2015/16."
"Mallalieu revealed she had voted for Britain to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. She is a member of the Exmoor Hunt and the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu QC (born 27 November 1945) is a British lawyer, Labour Party politician and president of the Countryside Alliance. Lady Mallalieu comes from a distinguished political family. Her grandfather, Frederick Mallalieu, had been Liberal Member of Parliament for Colne Valley. He was succeeded in that seat by her uncle, Lance Mallalieu, later Labour MP for Brigg. Her father, Joseph Percival William Mallalieu (known"
"2016. She lives in the Peak District with her husband and two children. Katharine Towers Katharine Towers is a British poet. She has published one poetry pamphlet and two poetry collections. Towers is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, ""The Floating Man"", and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her second collection, ""The Remedies'. Katharine Towers was born in London in 1961. She studied Modern Languages at St. Hilda's College, Oxford. In 2007, she obtained an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Towers's pamphlet,"
"Alfred Austin Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin’s poems are little-remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature. Alfred Austin was born in Headingley, near Leeds, on 30 May 1835, to a Roman Catholic family. His father, Joseph Austin,"
"Geraint Lloyd Owen Geraint Lloyd Owen (born 15 May 1941)is a Welsh-language poet, also known by his bardic name Geraint Llifon. He is a retired head teacher and is the Archdruid of the Gorsedd between 2016 and 2019. He was born in a farmhouse between Llandderfel and Sarnau, Meirionnydd, before moving to his mother's family home in Sarnau village. He attended the local school, then Ysgol Tŷ-tan-domen, Bala, and trained as a secondary-school teacher at the Heath College, Cardiff. He taught at Machynlleth. He won numerous local eisteddfod chairs, including Pontrhydfendigaid, Lampeter, Gŵyl Fawr Aberteifi (Cardigan), Powys and the Urdd."