Possible Clues:

• One investigating trendy male, a poet
• Emily? Endlessly unsteady, having got thus in pub
• Emily with the poems
• Liberal arts college in the Keystone State
• Poetic Emily
• Emily —, US poet
• Novelist said to get no backing for poet
• Detective favoured child for unusually dashing poet
• Poet audibly takes novelist on
• He saddled the first five past the post in the nineteen eighty three Cheltenham Gold Cup