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- Duffy’s poetry has always been strong and feminist. This position is especially well captured in her first collection, Standing Female Nude, in which the title poem consists of an interior monologue comprising a female model’s response to the male artist who is painting her image in a Cubist style
- Although she knew she was a lesbian since her days at St. Joseph’s convent school, her early love poems give no indication of her homosexuality; the object of love in her verses is someone whose gender is not specified

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- Duffy’s themes include language and the representation of reality; the construction of the self; gender issues; contemporary culture; and many different forms of alienation, oppression and social inequality. She writes in everyday, conversational language, making her poems appear deceptively simple. With this demotic style she creates contemporary versions of traditional poetic forms

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- 2012

PEN/Pinter Prize

- 2011

Costa Poetry Award

- 2011

T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist)

- 2005

T. S. Eliot Prize

- 2001

CBE

- 2000

Whitbread Children's Book Award

- 1997

Signal Poetry Award

- 1995

Lannan Literary Award (Poetry)

- 1995

OBE

- 1993

Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year)

- 1993

Scottish Arts Council Book Award

- 1993

Whitbread Poetry Award

- 1992

Cholmondeley Award

- 1990

Scottish Arts Council Book Award

- 1989

Dylan Thomas Award

- 1988

Somerset Maugham Award

- 1986

Peterloo Poets 'Poems About Painting' Competition

- 1986

Scottish Arts Council Book Award

- 1984

Eric Gregory Award

- 1983

National Poetry Competition

- 1982
C. Day Lewis Fellowship
- many more

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- Carol Ann Duffy, in full Dame Carol Ann Duffy, (born December 23, 1955, Glasgow, Scotland), British poet whose well-known and well-liked poetry

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- Duffy grew up attending convent schools and began publishing her poetry in magazines at age 14. She later attended Liverpool University. After graduating with a degree in philosophy in 1977, Duffy set to work publishing several books and traveling to read and teach her poetry.

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- Duffy lived in Glasgow, Scotland, until age six, when she and her family moved to Stafford, England. Her father, a fitter for an electric company, ran an unsuccessful bid for Parliament in 1983. Duffy grew up attending convent schools and began publishing her poetry in magazines at age 14.

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- She received a degree in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Her first job was writing for television shows, followed by a C. Day Lewis Fellowship to work as a writer-in-residence in East End schools of London from 1982 and 1984.

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- she makes frequent use of the dramatic monologue in her exploration of different voices and different identities, and she also uses the sonnet form. Duffy is both serious and humorous, often writing in a mischievous, playful style - in particular, she plays with words as she explores the way in which meaning and reality are constructed through language

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- Her verses, as an Economist reviewer described them, are typically “spoken in the voices of the urban disaffected, people on the margins of society who harbour resentments and grudges against the world.”