I can find remarkably little comment on the news that Andrew Motion has been appointed chair of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). I imagine that he will be paid in ready money, rather than in the hogsheads of Canary wine reputed to be his reward for the day job as Poet Laureate.
One would hope that the appointment of a poet to the MLA is good news, particularly for libraries, though how someone with an ear for language will cope with their highly obscure dialect of officialese will be interesting.
I wonder which past laureate would have made the best Chair of MLA. I would quite like to have seen Ted Hughes in the job, or perhaps Colley Cibber.
