Carol Ann Duffy

Standard Name: Duffy, Carol Ann
Birth Name: Carol Ann Duffy
CAD , Britain's first woman Poet Laureate, has published thirty books, which as well as poetry include plays, works for young people, and edited anthologies. Early in her career she began winning literary awards and has amassed an impressive number. She now lives by her pen. Her poems are witty, unexpected dramatisations of human situations, attentive to gender issues and to issues of power misused. She alternates personal, even autobiographical poetry with dramatic monologues which assume other voices. Among these voices are the disturbing ones of criminals or psychopaths.
Black and white photograph of Carol Ann Duffy at Humber Mouth literary festival, 2009. She sits with hands folded on a table that is not pictured. She wears a loose jacket with a large lapel, a brooch, and earrings. She looks to her right with a neutral expression, and her hair is curly, falling loose around her shoulders and forehead.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Jackie Kay
In 1999 JK , along with Carol Ann Duffy , Brian Patten , Roger McGough , Gareth Owen , and Peter Bailey , published a children's book called Five Finger-piglets.
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Textual Production Elaine Feinstein
EF followed her life of Pushkin the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney ,...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
Its revised edition, 2002, is strong in moderns like Kathleen Jamie and Carol Ann Duffy as well as in the fifteenth century onwards,
Textual Production Fleur Adcock
She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...
Textual Production Ruth Padel
This poem was reprinted in Angel. Other poets to appear in this series, each on a different coloured sheet of paper, were Carol Ann Duffy , Judi Benson , Anne Born , Carole Coates

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