Olivia Cole

Is Oxford voting for a celebrity or a poet?

Literature and scandal have often gone together, writes Olivia Cole. But the withdrawal of Derek Walcott from the race to become professor of poetry reflected misplaced priorities

issue 16 May 2009
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