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Friday, 15 February, 2002, 09:21 GMT
Motion writes poem for Margaret
![]() Motion has written three poems for royal occasions
Poet laureate Andrew Motion has written a poem to mark the death of Princess Margaret.
Titled The Younger Sister, it also points out that Margaret, who was being buried in Windsor on Friday, died with the knowledge that "love and duty speak two languages". Motion, who became poet laureate in 1999, has written two previous sets of verse to mark royal occasions - for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday and Prince Edward's wedding.
"Quite what the laureate is and is not expected to write about is as mysterious to me as it is to everybody else," he told BBC News Online. "But there is an additional expectation that they will write about traditional events in the royal calendar. "It seemed to me that in all kinds of ways this was a significant thing and should be written about."
It has also been hailed as the start of a new generation of "realistic" royal verse. Motion, who is also a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia, also wrote a poem in the wake of 11 September.
The Younger Sister
"The luxuries, of course, and privilege -
And now death spells it out again, and more,
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