Judi Dench's embattled M in Skyfall at one point reaches not for a Beretta or one of Q's exploding pens but a few lines of Tennyson. Would the words of Carol Ann Duffy work as well?

Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer

The Poet Laureate's verses aren't bad, but have more in common with tabloid headlines than the works of her great predecessors