Comprehensive information about Carol Ann Duffy including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Carol Ann Duffy is a British poet and playwright born in Glasgow, Scotland. Duffy is the first female and first Scottish Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. This educational Carol Ann Duffy resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. Go to Quote / Comment
Look at Seamus Heaney or Jo Shapcott – poets that have proved they can reach a huge readership by the quality of their poetry. Go to Quote / Comment
Every time a poet writes a poem it’s like it’s the first time. When you’ve finished a poem, you don’t know if you’ll ever write another one. Some poems arrive with a weight that’s more significant than other poems and you know it will take a lot of care to do it justice. Poetry, for so long now, has been the way I relate to everything. It’s like a companion. I can’t imagine ever being separated from it. Go to Quote / Comment
(About her Mum) She was entrancing, fantastic at making up rhymes and stories. I think it was her Irish syntax and voice music that started my love of words. Go to Quote / Comment