Plas Wilmot, the Shropshire birthplace of World War I poet Wilfred Owen, has been granted listed status.

BBC: Wilfred Owen's birthplace given listed status

Scott revealed plans to play the world-renowned poet during a Daily Telegraph interview at the Venice Film Festival.

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That Tyrannasaural nest egg took the poet around the world and finally to Brazil in the 1950s during the bossa nova Girl from Ipanema years.

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The HLF said Yr Ysgwrn had become a place of pilgrimage for visitors from Wales and around the world who want to see the poet's Black Chair, while experiencing the dramatic landscape which inspired so many of his poems.

BBC: Yr Ysgwrn

Taking part will be several of the poetry world's leading lights, including Irish writer Seamus Heaney, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and former US poet laureate Kay Ryan.

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