Poet's author in ship on capsizing! (7)

I believe the answer is:

spenser

(Other definitions for spenser that I've seen before include "The Faerie Queene author" , "Fairy Queen author" , "Edmund -, Eng. poet" , "Elizabethan poet" , "English poet of 'The Faerie Queene'" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.

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