Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy
Duffy in June 2009
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
In office
1 May 2009 – 10 May 2019
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded byAndrew Motion
Succeeded bySimon Armitage
Personal details
Born (1955-12-23) 23 December 1955 (age 68)[1]
Glasgow, Scotland
Children1[2]
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool (B.A. Hons, Philosophy)
OccupationPoet, playwright

Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish[3] poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009,[4] and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet laureate, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.[5]

Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in accessible language.[6]

  1. ^ "Carol Ann Duffy | Poet". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Carol Ann Duffy - Poetry - Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
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  4. ^ "Prof Carol Ann Duffy". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  5. ^ "Entertainment | Duffy reacts to new Laureate post". BBC News. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Carol Ann Duffy | British poet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 17 July 2016.