Article: From Potter to poet, Daniel Radcliffe and the secret verse.(News)

Byline: Simon Cable Showbusiness Reporter

NOT content with playing the most famous character in modern fiction, it seems that Daniel Radcliffe has literary ambitions of his own.

The 19-year-old star of the Harry Potter films has been unmasked as a budding poet whose work has appeared in an underground fashion publication.

But his female admirers might be disappointed to learn that he is no romantic.

His quartet of poems, published under a pen name and written when he was 17, are about infidelity, Pop Idol and junkie rock star Pete Doherty.

The most controversial of the four, Away Days, details the narrator's affairs with ...

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