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Man and lady host gathering for poet (5,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dylan thomas

'poet' is the definition.
(I know that Dylan Thomas is a poet)

'man and lady host gathering' is the wordplay.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'gathering' indicates anagramming the letters (letters gathered in a new way).
'lady'+'host'='ladyhost'
'man' put after 'ladyhost' is 'ladyhostman'.
'ladyhostman' is an anagram of 'DYLAN THOMAS'.

'for' is the link.

(Another definition for dylan thomas that I've seen is " Welsh poet, d.1953".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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