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Carol Ann Duffy

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What will you do now with the gift of your left life?


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Poets sing our human music for us.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Did you know about Carol Ann Duffy?

"He gave me confidence" Carol Ann Duffy said "he was great. Her third "The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009" addresses current events such as species extinction the climate change conference in Copenhagen the banking crisis and the war in Afghanistan. Poet laureate
In her first poem as poet laureate Duffy tackled the scandal over British MPs expenses in the format of a sonnet.

She is the first woman the first Scot and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009.

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