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| ]'''Carol Ann Duffy''' (born ], | |||
| ]'''Carol Ann Duffy''' (born ], ]) is a ] ] born in ]. She grew up in ] and graduated in ] from ] in 1977, before moving to ]. She now lives in ] with her daughter Ella (born 1995) and her partner, the poet ]. | |||
| ==Works== | |||
| THIS WOMAN IS PURE EVIL!!! | |||
| In her first collection ''Standing Female Nude'' (]) she often uses the voices of outsiders while ''Selling Manhattan'' (]) contains more personal verse. Her later collections are ''The Other Country'' (]) and ''Mean Time'' (]). | |||
| A number of very successful children's collections include 'Meeting Midnight' (1999) and ''The Oldest Girl in the World'' (2000). ''The World's Wife'' (1999) saw her retelling famous stories and fables -- ], ], ] -- as wry and exuberant ']' documents from the point of view of real or imagined women. Her most recent collection ''Feminine Gospels'' (2002) continues this vein, showing an increased interest in long narrative poems, accessible in style and often surreal in their imagery. She is perhaps one of the few poets in the UK to combine academic integrity with accessibility and popularity. | |||
| ==Awards== | |||
| *] 1984 | |||
| *] Book Award (for ''Standing Female Nude'' and ''The Other Country'', and again for ''Mean Time'') | |||
| *] 1988 (for ''Selling Manhattan'') | |||
| *] 1989 | |||
| *] 1992 | |||
| *] 1993 (for ''Mean Time'') | |||
| *] (for ''Mean Time'') | |||
| i love the picture though. mmmmmm | |||
| ==Poet Laureate controversy== | |||
| Carol Ann Duffy was almost appointed the British ] in ] (after the death of previous Laureate ]), but lost out on the position to ]. According to the '']'', ] sources stated unofficially that Prime Minister ] was 'worried about having a ] poet laureate because of how it might play in ]'. Duffy later claimed that she would not have accepted the laureateship anyway, saying in an interview with the '']'' newspaper that 'I will not write a poem for ] and ]. No self-respecting poet should have to.' She says she regards Andrew Motion as a friend and that the idea of a contest between her and him for the post was entirely invented by the newspapers. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| *http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/carolannduffy.html | |||
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Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23,
THIS WOMAN IS PURE EVIL!!!
i love the picture though. mmmmmm