Possible Clues:

• Poet of a popular kind
• Bit of fun with popular poet
• Poet for whom the trees were coming into leaf, like something almost being said?
• Ma --, Pam Ferris's role in 'The Darling Buds of May'
• Bit of fun deputising for poet
• Singer with fashionable following introduces poet
• Popular singer comes before poet
• Philip __, poet and librarian
• Poet finding sanctuary in love, looking back
• Student on old vessel, fashionable poet