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Carol Ann Duffy

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Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Poetry and prayer are very similar.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.


— Carol Ann Duffy


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I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.


— 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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