David Cornock, BBC Wales Parliamentary Correspondent, reflects on the quest to find two poets for the Welsh Assembly.

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Poland's two great poets studied there: Adam Mickiewicz nearly two centuries ago, and in the pre-war years Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel prizewinner.

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Last year, the prize was marred by controversy after two of the shortlisted poets withdrew from the prize in protest over its sponsorship by investment firm, Aurum Funds.

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Burnside, 46, told BBC News Online he was "hugely honoured to follow Heaney and Hughes - two of the most important poets of the last century".

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