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Quick Facts. Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955, Glasgow, Scotland) is a British poet whose well-known and well-liked poetry engaged such topics as gender and oppression, expressing them in familiar, conversational language that made her work accessible to a variety of readers. In 2009–19 she served as the first woman poet laureate of ...
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish [3] poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University , and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, [ 4 ] and her term expired in 2019.
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. And, as seems to be the rule for Poets Laureate ...
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Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in December 1955.She published her first written works in the early 1970s.She graduated in 1977 with a degree in philosophy from the University of Liverpool.In 2005, she won the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize for her collection, “Rapture.”She won the National Poetry Competition for ‘Whoever She Was.’Duffy spent a brief period working as a poetry critic for The Guardian.She has also written picture books for children.She was named poet laureatein 2009 and stepped down in 2019.‘Havisham’ is a brilliant retelling of the life of the famous character by the same name in Dickens’ Great Expectations. Rather than depicting her as a depressing, and sometimes slightly scary spi...‘Nostalgia’ considers the importance of language, the meaning of the word “nostalgia” and the emotions associated with it. Through the poem, Duffy is asking the reader to consider when they first k...Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in December 1955. Her family was Roman Catholic and lived in a poorer region of the city of Glasgow called Gorbals. It was in this area that her father, Frank Duffy, worked as an electrician and lived alongside her mother, Mary Black. Duffy was the first of five children, all of whom, asidefrom the wri...
In 1974, Duffy began a degree in philosophy at the University of Liverpool. She graduated in 1977 with honors. It was only six years later that she won the National Poetry Competition for Whoever She Was, as well as the Greenwich Poetry Competition for ‘Words of Absolution.’ The following year saw her begin work as a poetry critic for The Guardian....
In 2005, she won the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize for her poetry collection, Rapture, which is considered one of her most important volumes. It is said to detail the long-term relationship the poet held with Scottish poet Jackie Kay, which ended in 2004. The same year she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University. More recently,...
Carol Ann Duffy was notably influenced by writers such as Pablo Neruda, Aimé Césaire, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Browning. Duffy’s work has also gone on to influence poets to this day. Her ability to create such dramatic characters and narratives has pushed the boundaries of what is possible in written verse.
Carol Ann Duffy is an award ... of myth and history,” the poems in this collection are all told from the points of view of the women behind famous male figures ...
Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She is a former editor of the poetry magazine Ambit and is a regular reviewer and broadcaster. She moved from London to Manchester in 1996 and began to lecture in poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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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. They subsequently had four sons, and moved when Carol Ann was six to Stafford, where her father worked for English Electric and managed Stafford Rangers Football Club in his spare time.
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