Carol Ann Duffy (innate December 23, 1955) is a British poet born in Glasgow. She grew higher around Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977, before moving to London. She okay, sleep in Manchester with her daughter Ella (born 1995) & her partner, a poet Jackie Kay.

Works

Around her number 1 collection Standing Female Nude (1985) she often utilizes a voices of outsiders when Marketing Manhattan (1987) contains more home verse. Her late collections come A More United states (1990) and Mean Period (1993).

The total of super successful tikes's collections include 'Meeting Midnight' (1999) & A Oldest Girl in the Globe (2000). ''The World's Married woman'' (1999) saw her retelling notable stories & fables -- Midas, King Kong, Elvis -- as wry & exuberant 'feminist' documents from a point of see of rattling or even imaginary women. Although ''The World's Married woman is presented in that way, these are said to exist as her virtually all autobiographical collection of verse form. Her virtually all recent collection Feminine Gospels (2002) continues this vearound, showing an increased interest in yearn narrative verse form, accessible a la mode & typically surreal in their imagination. She is perchance one of a couple poets in the UK to combine academic integrity by having accessibility & popularity. Several adolescent page through her function, when it view her poetry when a portion of their A-level and GCSE English Literature exams.

Awards

Eric Gregory Award 1984 Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Standing Female Nude and A More United states, & over again for Mean Period) Somerset Maugham Award 1988 (for Selling Manhattan) Dylan Thomas Award 1989 Cholmondely Award 1992 Whitbread Award for Poetry 1993 (for Mean Time) Forward Prize (for Mean Time)

Poet Laureate controversy

Carol Ann Duffy was most appointed a British Poet Laureate in 1999 (after a demise of former Laureate Ted Hughes), but wasted retired on the position to Andrew Motion. Based on data from a Sunday Times'', Downing Street sources stated unofficially that Prime Minister Tony Blair was 'worried just about with the homosexual poet laureate because of how it will play within middle England'. Duffy late claimed that she would non stand accepted a laureateship anyway, saying inside an locate sustaining a Guardian newspaper that 'I might non write the verse form for Edward and Sophie. There is no self-self-respectful poet should own to.' She says she regards Andrew Motion as the friend & that a idea of a contest between her & him for the post was completely invented per newspapers.