Time to bring in new poet (5)
I believe the answer is:
dante
'poet' is the definition.
(Dante is an example)
'time to bring in new' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'date' (date is a kind of time**).
'to bring in' is an insertion indicator.
'new' becomes 'n'.
'date' placed around 'n' is 'DANTE'.
(Other definitions for dante that I've seen before include "Thirteenth to fourteenth century Italian poet" , "Italian poet, writer of the Divine Comedy" , "Inferno poet" , "Great Italian poet of 'The Divine Comedy'" , "Net Da a poet" .)