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Works Cited

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Source: https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/poetry-for-the-palace/the-queens-gallery-palace-of-holyroodhouse/carol-ann-duffy-b-1955

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The construction of the self

Gender issues

Contemporary culture

Alienation

Oppression

Social inequality

(British Council)

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Scottish Arts Council Award (Britannica)

Whitbread (Costa) Book Award (Britannica)

T.S Eliot Prize (Britannica)

5-year grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (Poets)

Lannan Literary Award (Poets)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (Poets)

Eric Gregory Award (British Council)

Cholmondeley Award (British Council)

Dylan Thomas Award (British Council)

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Her first job was writing for television shows, and later worked as a writer-in-residence in East End schools of London. (Poets) She worked as a critic for The Guardian and as a editor for the magazine Ambit. She also lectured poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University when she later became the Creative Director of their Writing School. (Britannica)

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She attended Liverpool University as a philosophy major. After she graduated she started to publish several of her groups and traveled around the world to read and teach her poetry. (Britannica)

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Duffy lived in Glasgow, Scotland until she was 6 until she and her family moved to Stafford, England. Her father worked for an electric company and unsuccessfully ran for Parliament in 1983. As a child she attended Convent schools until she began publishing her poetry in magazines when she was 14. In the duration of her attending Convent school she began to discover that she was a lesbian as her love poems were evident towards her identity. (Poetry Foundation)

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Carol Ann Duffy, in full Dame Carol Ann Duffy, (born December 23, 1955, Glasgow, Scotland) (Britannica)