“Bookmakers have stopped taking bets on who will be the next poet laureate after a weekend during which there was widespread speculation that Carol Ann Duffy will be appointed to the role later this week.
William Hill, which had made the multiple award-winning Duffy its 5/4 joint favourite with Simon Armitage to take the role, said yesterday that it had closed its books on the laureateship race.”
Curious about all the odds? Read more here at guardian.co uk.
