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Carol Ann Duffy is best known for her romantic love poems in the form of monologues

love

loss

nostalgia

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Born December 23rd, 1955

Gorbals, Glasgow in Scottland

daughter of two Glasgow radicals

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partnered with another female

also a poet

raising child together

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written about by Katherine Viner in the Guardian Weekend

read by people who don't read poetry

respected by peers

Antioch Review by Jane Satterfield

"masterful subversions of myth and history,”

POV from women behind famous male figures

wives of Aesop, Pontius Pilate, Faust, Tiresias, Herod, Quasimodo, Lazarus, Sisyphus, Freud, Darwin, King Kong

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- won through The Bees (2011)

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- Rapture (2005)

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professor of contemporary poetry

creative director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University

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family moved to England at age 6

Attended Saint Augustin's RC Primary School

talent recognized by teachers

keen reader and poet since early age

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Age 15, one of Duffy's teachers, June Scriven sent Duffy's poems to publisher

publisher impressed

poems were published

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started relationship with poet Adrian Henri

lived with him until 1982

enrolled into Liverpool University to get closer to Henri

wrote two plays and a pamphlet, "Fifth Last Song"

received philosophy degree in 1977

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rose to fame when winning Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition

won with "Whoever She Was"

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first woman to be appointed position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

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won with "Standing Female Nude"

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"Selling Manhattan"

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"Rapture"

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Gender

violence

tyranny

oppression

contemporary culture

forms of alienation

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Exemplified in Standing Female Nude:

model's acceptance of traditional attitudes towards women's beauty and standards

Duffy then "deconstructs" these standards further in the poem

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Wrote about queer romantic feelings in much of her work, especially in Mean Time and the Selected Poem's of 1994

Controversy pertaining to Poet Laureate of the UK

Prime minister Blair believed Duffy's sexuality would not be received well by "Middle England"

Andrew Motion was then made Poet Laureate initially

Duffy then took over Motion's post in 2009

claims only did so because she would be the first woman since the 17th century inception of the poet laureate

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conversational diction

dramatic monologue

serious and humorous tones

postmodernism/ poststructuralism