Poetry publishers Faber and Faber – think Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, among many others – have appointed Jarvis Cocker, frontman of Pulp, as editor-at-large. Faber has also just launched a book of Cocker’s selected lyrics, Mother, Brother, Lover. According to Faber, Cocker will work in a broad commissioning role, echoing the work the Who’s Pete Townshend put in, in a similar capacity, in the 1980s.  Some might say, what is a respectable poetry publisher doing putting out pop music lyrics? Faber said:  “Jarvis felt like a natural fit with the Faber sensibility, both as author and editor.”