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John Betjeman,
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Robert Browning,
Joseph Buckley,
Gillian Clarke,
Leonard Cohen,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Tim Cumming,
Laura Dockrill,
Maura Dooley,
Martin Doyle,
Carol Ann Duffy,
Paul Durcan,
EMC,
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Andrew Forster,
Nancy Gaffield,
Philip Gross,
Sophie Hannah,
Thomas Hardy,
Tony Harrison,
Seamus Heaney,
W. N. Herbert,
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JC001,
Jackie Kay,
Mimi Khalvati,
Philip Larkin,
Gwyneth Lewis,
Andrew Marvell,
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Rabindranath Tagore,
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Edward Thomas,
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Tomas Tranströmer,
Nicki Williams,
William Wordsworth,
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Humour, Ageing, Art, Belonging, Birth, Body, Books and Reading, Celebration, Childhood, Christmas, City life, Comment, Conflict, Death, Digital World, Family, Fantasy, Fathers, Fathers' Day, Food, Friendship, Grief, Growing up, Guilt, Language, Home, Identity, Illness, International Women's Day, Imagination, Interview, Loss, Love, Marriage, Memories, Migration, Mothers, Mothering Sunday, Music, Nature, Natural World, Online World, Peace, Place, Poems about Paintings, Poems by Young People, Poems with Film or Animation, Poetry, Poverty, Protest, Rap and Slam, Politics, Race, Racism, Rebellion, Relationships, Revenge, School, Seasons, Sex, Shakespeare's birthday, Sport, States of Mind, St David's Day, The past, Tradition, Valentine's Day, Violence, War, Water, Wealth, Work, World Book Day, Youth, YouTube Selection,
Resources:
Standing Female Nude
The World’s Wife
Feminine Gospels
New Selected Poems
Rapture
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain’s poet laureate in May 2009.
Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence.
