Just in from the Associated Press:
LONDON -- British poet Carol Ann Duffy says she has been chosen as the country's first female poet laureate.
Previous holders of the honored post include William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson and Ted Hughes.
The poet laureate writes poems to mark national landmarks such as royal weddings and funerals.
Duffy succeeds Andrew Motion who was appointed in 1999.
Fifty-three-year-old Duffy once said that no self-respecting poet should have to write verses about the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son. She told the BBC she thought long and hard before accepting, but took the post in recognition of the great female poets writing now.
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