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Jan 10, 2017 · The best poems by Carol Ann Duffy selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) was the UK Poet Laureate from 2009 until 2019, but she has been a major voice in contemporary British poetry for over thirty years, since her first collection, Standing Female Nude, was published in 1985.
Carol Ann Duffy is an award-winning Scottish poet who, according to Danette DiMarco in Mosaic, is the poet of “post-post war England: Thatcher’s England.” Duffy is best known for writing love poems that often take the form of monologues.
Some of Duffy’s best-known poetry collections are Standing Female Nude (1985), The World’s Wife (1999), and Rapture (2005). She has also taken to writing verse for children as well as adults. In 2009, she was named Britain’s first female Poet Laureate.
Carol Ann Duffy Poems. 1. Valentine. Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. ... Read Poem. 2. Words, Wide Night. Somewhere on the other side of this wide night. and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. ... Read Poem. 3. Stealing.
On May 1st 2009, Carol Ann Duffy became the UK’s twentieth Poet Laureate. She is one of Britain’s best known and most admired poets. Her poems appeal to those who wouldn’t usually read poetry and they appear on the national curriculum.
Carol Ann Duffy. POEMS BIBLIOGRAPHY CRITICISM LEARNING RESOURCES. Carol Ann Duffy was born in the Gorbals (Glasgow) on 23 December 1955, the first child of May (née Black) and Frank Duffy; May was Irish and Frank had Irish grandparents.
First female, first Scottish Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history, Duffy's combination of tender and tough, humour and lyric, jaded and curious, idiosyncratic and conventional has won her a very wide audience of readers and listeners.
First female, first Scottish Poet Laureate in the role's 400 year history, Duffy's combination of tender and tough, humour and lyric, jaded and curious, idiosyncratic and conventional has won her a very wide audience of readers and listeners.
Oct 30, 2023 · Our guide to the works of former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, including Mean Time, The World's Wife, Rapture and Feminine Gospels.
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright who was appointed Britain’s Poet Laureate in 2009. She is one of the UK’s most well-known and successful contemporary poets with numerous poetry collections to her name, including Standing Female Nude (1985), Mean Time (1993), The World’s Wife (1999) and Rapture (2005).
