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In this July 2010 feature from The Guardian newspaper, UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has collected sports poems from such well-known authors as Billy Collins, Wendy Cope, Lavinia Greenlaw, and Paul Muldoon.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jul/10/sporting-poems-carol-ann-duffy
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