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Carol Ann Duffy

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I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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"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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