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.
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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
They (Poems) come from lots of places: from personal experience; from memory. Things can be emotionally true even if they are not factually true. Not every poem has to be ‘from’ you even if it is ‘by’ you – other people’s voices come into my poetry. Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment
(Poetry) It’s the place in language we are most human and we can see ourselves fully – far more than prose in fiction. A poem is able to hold so much in so little space. It’s a time capsule, a Tardis so much bigger on the inside than it seems on the outside. Go to Quote / Comment
Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart Go to Quote / Comment