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    Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL HonFBA HonFRSE (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester...
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  • from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a...
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    The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador and Anvil Press Poetry and later...
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  • (wife of Shakespeare) (1556–1623) "Anne Hathaway" (poem), a poem by Carol Ann Duffy Portrait of Anne Hathaway Mary Bigelow Ingham (1832–1923), American...
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    holder of the position as at 2024 is Simon Armitage who succeeded Carol Ann Duffy in May 2019 after 10 years in office. The origins of the poet laureateship...
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  • Rapture is a collection of poetry written by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate from 2009 to 2019. It marks her 37th work of...
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  • New Statesman on National Poetry Day, October 2010. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy told Channel 4 News that the poem was "the darkest poem he has ever...
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    "The Little Red Cap" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy published by Picador as a part of her 1999 collection of poetry titled The World's Wife. The book consists...
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    considered for the position of Poet Laureate following the tenure of Dame Carol Ann Duffy, but withdrew herself from contention in order, as she stated, to maintain...
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    season, he directed the medieval play Everyman in a new adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy starring Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and for the Christmas season...
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  • American murder victim Carol Ann Conboy (born 1947), American jurist Carol Ann Drazba (1943–1966), American Army nurse Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955), British...
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    the man who taught him English at Radley, for making him who he was. Carol Ann Duffy succeeded him as Poet Laureate on 1 May 2009. Motion is chairman of...
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    Last Post (poem) (category Poetry by Carol Ann Duffy)
    "Last Post" is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, in 2009. It was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths...
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    "Icarus" by John Updike; "Icarus Again" by Alan Devenish; "Mrs Icarus" by Carol Ann Duffy; "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert; "It Should Have Been Winter"...
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    Retrieved 14 October 2017. "The World's Wife: From Mrs Tiresias - Carol Ann Duffy @ SWF 2013". YouTube. Retrieved 24 January 2023. Robert Graves, 1960...
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  • 2003 – Don Paterson, Landing Light 2004 – George Szirtes, Reel 2005 – Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture 2006 – Seamus Heaney, District and Circle 2007 – Sean O'Brien...
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  • linguistic scholar Blaže Koneski. At the same time, the British poet Carol Ann Duffy was announced as the recipient of the Golden Wreath Award of the Struga...
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    and later she had a 15-year relationship with poet Carol Ann Duffy. During this relationship, Duffy had a daughter, Ella, whose biological father is fellow...
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    2022). The Pillar. Retrieved 10 July 2023. Duffy, Carol Ann (26 March 2015). "Richard by Carol Ann Duffy". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original...
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  • Demeter, a 300 BC elegy by Philitas of Cos "Demeter", a 1999 sonnet by Carol Ann Duffy Demeter, the fictional Romanian ship which brought Count Dracula to...
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    by Carol Ann Duffy, features a sonnet entitled "Anne Hathaway", based on the passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his "second-best bed". Duffy chooses...
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  • poems have appeared in many anthologies. She has been described by Carol Ann Duffy as a fine poet "who should be better known." Mayer was born in 1927...
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  • Armitage John Burnside Robert Crawford David Dabydeen Michael Donaghy Carol Ann Duffy Ian Duhig Elizabeth Garrett Lavinia Greenlaw W. N. Herbert Michael...
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  • collection in collaboration with British poet and playwright Dame Carol Ann Duffy, released by One Little Independent on 3 December 2021. The pair met...
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    Hopkins), war (Wilfred Owen, e.e. cummings), and gender and sexuality (Carol Ann Duffy). Further, postmodern authors such as Ted Berrigan and John Berryman...
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  • Time", a prize-winning poetry collection by British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy Meantime (EP), a 2012 EP by Kwes Mean time between failure, the "average"...
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    that lead to her transformation. In her collection, The World's Wife, Carol Ann Duffy published a poem- the first in the collection- called 'Little Red-...
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    announced first female, first Scot and first openly bisexual laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. His series on Victorian social reformers, Ian Hislop's Age of the...
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    been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets. Carol Ann Duffy, the UK Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2019, won in 1983 with "Whoever...
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    the best bed was reserved for guests. The poem "Anne Hathaway" by Carol Ann Duffy endorses this view of the second best bed, having Anne say: "The bed...
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