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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Jackie Kay
Contributing along with Gillian Clarke , Carol Ann Duffy , Jo Shapcott , Fiona Sampson , and many others, to a collection of poetic responses to Shakespeare four hundred years after his death, JK replied...
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 Sarah Daniels
When Sally Avens conceived of a series of four radio plays, Women on Love, based on love-poems by women, SD contributed a piece on Carol Ann Duffy 's Warming Her Pearls (in which a...
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
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 Selima Hill
In 1998 SH 's work appeared in volume two of Bloodaxe 's Poetry Quartets series of poetry readings on cassette tapes, along with Fleur Adcock , Carol Ann Duffy , and Carol Rumens .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Features Germaine Greer
The selection of poets is highly informed. It reaches back in time before GG 's anthology Kissing the Rod, to Anne Askew and Isabella Whitney , and forward to Carol Ann Duffy and Margaret Atwood
Textual Features Gillian Allnutt
Carol Ann Duffy noted: The poems often interrelate, even across decades, and much of the collection is best read as an extended sequence.... to fully savour the craft of one of the most trustworthy poets...
Textual Features Gillian Allnutt
In the poems here, says Carol Ann Duffy , there are, as always in her work, many displaced people. No one here is fully at home in the world.
Bloodaxe Books. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/.
Reception Kate Clanchy
Some reviewers found the topic unsuitable: in KC 's words, too conservative, or too happy, or, mostly, because it involved me talking about myself. It still offends, it seems, for a mother to talk about...
Reception Jackie Kay
In 2016 JK was appointed Makar or poet laureate of Scotland. While she was on the road with Carol Ann Duffy , Gillian Clarke , and Imtiaz Dharker on the Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour
Reception Alice Meynell
AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...
Reception Caroline Norton
She treated her own request as if it were just any appeal for patronage: I do not know if there be any precedent for appointing a female poet laureate even in a Queen's reign...

Timeline

1968: Peter Jay founded Anvil Press Poetry, which...

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1968

Peter Jay founded Anvil Press Poetry , which by the early twenty-first century was based in Greenwich in south-east London, and described itself as England's longest-standing independent poetry publisher.

1998-9: In a league table of sales in verse for these...

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1998-9

In a league table of sales in verse for these years, published by the Guardian in October 2000, Ted Hughes was the highest with 172,174, Seamus Heaney second with 34,690, and Carol Ann Duffy third...

26 November 1998: Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen...

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26 November 1998

Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen Jamie , Jackie Kay , and two male poets were issued as number one in the audio-cassette series Poetry Quartets.

23 September 2005: A commission from The Guardian to established...

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23 September 2005

A commission from The Guardian to established poets to write a contemporary nursery rhyme produced mostly little pieces about doom and gloom.

20 September 2006: At a round table at Edmonton, Alberta, five...

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20 September 2006

At a round table at Edmonton, Alberta, five poets laureates (of two Canadian cities, one Canadian province, Canada itself, and the District of Columbia, USA—all, as it happened, women) debated the issues of laureateship.

26 September 2009: The Guardian newspaper carried a number of...

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26 September 2009

The Guardian newspaper carried a number of poems and short prose pieces commissioned in support of the 10:10 initiative to reduce carbon emissions.

November 2015: A death sentence was passed in Saudi Arabia...

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November 2015

A death sentence was passed in Saudi Arabia on Ashraf Fayadh , a Palestinian poet, for blasphemy and renouncing Islam , crimes allegedly committed both in poetry and in coffee-house conversation.

20 June to 7 July 2016: British poets Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke,...

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20 June to 7 July 2016

British poets Carol Ann Duffy , Gillian Clarke , Imtiaz Dharker , and Jackie Kay , and musician John Sampson , went on a Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour .

Texts

Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. 1914: Poetry Remembers. Faber and Faber, 2013.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “A royal wedding poem by Carol Ann Duffy”. theguardian.com.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. Anvil New Poets 2. Anvil Press Poetry, 1994.
Duffy, Carol Ann, and Adrian Henri. Beauty and the Beast. Glasshouse Press, 1977.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Carols for Christmas”. The Guardian, pp. Review 2 - 4.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. “Exit Wounds”. The Guardian, pp. Review 2 - 4.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Fifth Last Song: Twenty-One Love Poems. Headland, 1982.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Five poets go on tour: Carol Ann Duffy’s travel diary begins”. theguardian.com.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Fleshweathercock, and Other Poems. Outposts, 1973.
Adcock, Fleur et al. Fleur Adcock, Carol Ann Duffy, Selima Hill, Carol Rumens. British Council; Bloodaxe Books.
Duffy, Carol Ann et al. Grimm Tales. Faber and Faber, 1996.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. Hand in Hand. Picador, 2001.
Rafferty, Trisha. I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine. Editor Duffy, Carol Ann, Viking, 1992.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Introduction: Alter Egos: New Writing”. Mslexia, Vol.
8
, pp. 23-4.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. Jubilee Lines. Faber, 2012.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Mean Time. Anvil Press Poetry, 1993.
Duffy, Carol Ann, and Eileen Cooper. Meeting Midnight. Faber, 1999.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. Off The Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse. Picador, 2018.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Pathway”. theguardian.com.
Duffy, Carol Ann et al. Penguin Modern Poets. Penguin, 1995.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Poets’ tour: reaching the ’unsure shore’”. theguardian.com.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Politics”. The Guardian.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Rapture. Pan Macmillan, 2005.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Ritual Lighting: Laureate Poems. Pan Macmillan Picador, 2014.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin, 1994.