Perhaps Motion showed "a" way to make the role more worthwhile:-
"Motion founded the online Poetry Archive, which he says that he could not have done if he had not been Poet Laureate, campaigned for the Heritage Lottery fund to be used to preserve poetry manuscripts, and chaired the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council."
from a short piece in the Indy on the PL role http://ind.pn/LZ9Y7
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