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Any further hints for getting the second couplet? I've tried googling the authors name and the colour and all I get is the first poem.

Enjoyed the gridfill and the first poem but now getting a bit cross at how one is supposed to identify the second one.

Smellyharry, the author's Wiki page has it...

Smelly Harry,

The Wiki page dedicated to the first poem also shows the other lines you need.

Thanks Malone, that sorted it.

Thanks, SH. I'd got it from an old book of quotations, but checked online - was pleased to find something that could help you.

I think I've solved all the clues but struggling to parse 18 Fish and monkey.... and 21 Eagle with base....
I have a fish (with a monkey included) and a bush (Australian).

If the subject this week is a poet,
Then I guess that I must be (1,2)
Thirty-one simple clues … hard to blow it!
Leaves me lots of time (3,4) … um … other stuff.

(Not as easy as it looks, this rhyming malarky!)

The reason why the 'poet' lost his academic position - see his wikipedia entry - has extraordinary similarities to recent events here in the UK. Plus ça change...

granama1
If you have the correct fish and the correct monkey, simply look up in Chambers meanings of the letters after the monkey...

Thanks Jif. That's 18 sorted.

Granama, the first four letters of your bush give the (amended) 'eagle'.