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About Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy was a contemporary Scottish poet and playwright. Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, serving in this position until her term ended in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Poetry — The art of language, rhythm, and emotional expression
  • Power — The dynamics of influence, authority, and leadership

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“The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we would dive for pearls. My lovers wordswere shooting stars which fell to earth as kisseson these lip...”
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“But behind each player sttod a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. Rapunzel slashing wildly at her hair. Bessie Smith unloved and down and out. Bluebeard's wives, Henry VI...”
— Carol Ann Duffy
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“I'm not the first or the lastto stand on a hillock,watching the man she marriedprove to the worldhe's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pi”
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“Then he started his period.One week in bed.Two doctors in.Three painkillers four times a day.And later a letter to the powers-that-bedemanding full-paid menstrual leave twelve weeks per year.”
— Carol Ann Duffy
feminism gender-roles humour menstruation

“Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.”
— Carol Ann Duffy
literature

“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”
— Carol Ann Duffy
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