Possible Clues:

• Poet admitting to holding up branch
• Bishop having argument about Northern poet
• Poet who wrote 'Home-Thoughts, from Abroad'
• Caroline's greatest skater
• Lines expert with controlling interest in defunct rail provider?
• Automatic poet
• Having to follow brother poet
• Poet having to sit beside bore regularly
• March past made him homesick
• Poet admitting holding up branch