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Writers cornered in Westminster Abbey (5)

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poets

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'writers' is the definition.
(poet is a kind of writer)

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(Other definitions for poets that I've seen before include "Heaney and Muldoon" , "Estop (anag.)" , "Burns" , "bridges, for example (but extra capital is needed)" , "Verse writers" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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