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
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 U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...
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...
Reception Jo Shapcott
JS was only the second woman to win the Forward Prize (following Carol Ann Duffy and preceding Kathleen Jamie in 1994).
Crown, Sarah. “Forward Prize goes to Kathleen Jamie”. Guardian Unlimited.
A commentator on the this prize described JS 's work as postfeminist, which...
Reception Dorothy Wordsworth
Virginia Woolf published an essay on DW in 1929 (reprinted in the Common Reader: Second Series, 1932). As early as 1940 (in his edition published the following year) Ernest de Selincourt wrote, Dorothy Wordsworth...
Reception Kathleen Jamie
KJ has said that now, having all the time, money (a two-year grant from the Scottish Arts Council ), and confidence she needs, she feels able to say, I'm a poet and this is what...
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/.
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 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 ,...

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Texts

Duffy, Carol Ann. Selling Manhattan. Anvil Press Poetry, 1987.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “September 2014”. theguardian.com.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Sincerity. Pan Macmillan, 2018.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Standing Female Nude. Anvil Press Poetry, 1985.
Rafferty, Trisha. Stopping for Death. Editor Duffy, Carol Ann, Viking, 1996.
Duffy, Carol Ann. The Bees. Picador, 2011.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “The Gambler”. Poetry Bookshop Online: Poems.
Duffy, Carol Ann. The Other Country. Anvil Press Poetry, 1990.
Duffy, Carol Ann. The Pamphlet. Anvil Press Poetry, 1998.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “The Week in Books”. The Guardian, p. Review 5.
Duffy, Carol Ann. The World’s Wife: Poems. Picador, 1999.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Thrown Voices. Turret Books, 1986.
Duffy, Carol Ann, editor. Time’s Tidings. Anvil Press Poetry, 1999.
Duffy, Carol Ann. William and the Ex-Prime Minister. Anvil Press Poetry, 1992.
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Winning Poets”. Mslexia, No. 38, pp. 31-3.