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Poetry Season

The Nation's Favourite Poet Result - TS Eliot is your winner!

Winner of the Nation's Favourite Poet vote TS Eliot

1st Place: TS Eliot

After more than 18,000 votes were cast on the Poetry Season site, we can reveal TS Eliot is your favourite poet. The rest of the top ten follows. Terms of the vote are here.

Runner up in the Nation's Favourite Poet vote John Donne

2nd Place

John Donne

Runner up in the Nation's Favourite Poet vote Benjamin Zephaniah

3rd Place

Benjamin Zephaniah

Wilfred Owen

4. Wilfred Owen

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Philip Larkin

5. Philip Larkin

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William Blake

6. William Blake

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WB Yeats

7. WB Yeats

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John Betjeman

8. John Betjeman

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John Keats

9. John Keats

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Dylan Thomas

10. Dylan Thomas

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Simon Armitage

The other poets were:
Simon Armitage

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WH Auden

WH Auden

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns

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Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope

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Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

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Roger McGough

Roger McGough

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John Milton

John Milton

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

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Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

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Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

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