The position of Professor of Poetry, a position that has been held by W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney, at Oxford University is to become vacant in May when current professor Christopher Ricks steps down at the end of his five year post.
The pay is relatively low but the position at Oxford does not require the poet to write about the Queen and Royal Family, as the Poet Laureate has to.
Andrew Motion is seen as one of the favourites for the job.
