Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time . The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her...See more
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time . The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate. See less
Carol Ann Duffy's Featured Books
Carol Ann Duffy book reviews
-
Stopping for death
Healing, funny, soulful
by KKaren, Aug 24, 2013
This book should never have gone out of print. It is a wonderful resource for anyone who has experienced loss. Death is inherent in all life, and this is a rare collection that adds perspective, ... Read More
-
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems
Beautiful
by ecos, Mar 22, 2012
Beautiful paintings by Jackie Morris. A wonderful selection of poems, well known and not so well known. Read More
