The Laureate 2021 Set against the glamorous backdrop of Britains roaring 20s, The Laureate tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves, who is married with four children when he meets and becomes romantically involved with Laura Riding, a writer from America Defying the conventions of polite society, Riding moves in with Graves and his wife living as a menage a tois Then with the arrival of strappingly handsome Irish poet Geoffrey Phibbs, the arrangement becomes a menage a quatre But soon tensions and rivalries become so fraught that Graves is a suspect for attempted murder