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You have to be brave to take on Harold Pinter - not only the nation's most sacred living playwright, but also a gentleman not known for mincing his words.

However, poet Don Paterson is not daunted. "Anyone can do that," is his considered opinion on his fellow writer's poetic output.

As part of the annual TS Eliot lecture, which Paterson delivers today, he will urge poets to "flirt with real danger", and also launch a withering attack on his literary colleague.

"To take a risk in a poem is not to write a big sweary outburst about how crap the war in Iraq is, even if you are the world's greatest living playwright. Because anyone can do that." [...]

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