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Duffy's style and themes have had influences on writers such as Pablo Neruda, Aime Cesaire, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Browning

But also, her writing style has generally had a huge impact on literacy as a whole, as she finds such unique ways to make characters and narratives push the boundaries of what is possible in "written verse"

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Duffy uses a very conversational style of writing, where the readers feel very casual reading her poetry. This makes her poems also feel more humorous than serious sometimes, which she said is intended in some cases.

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Duffy's themes involve representation of reality, the construction of the self, gender issues, contemporary culture, identity, social justice, and some other things such as her own problems throughout her life have appeared as well.

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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

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Duffy was homosexual, which was not very well received given the time period and how she grew up in a Catholic household. But regardless, she wrote poems about homosexuality, like After Orlando: Gay Love

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Graduating with a degree in philosophy in 1977, Duffy began writing and publishing several books and poetry. She was a poetry critic for The Guardian from 1988 to 1989 and an editor for the poetry magazine Ambit.

Later, she began teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University, even becoming creative director of the Writing School at a point.

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After her family moved to Stafford, England, Duffy was educated at Saint Austin's RC Primary School, where she discovered her passion for literature. She was a passionate reader and writer. She even wrote a poem at the age of 11 when her teacher died. It went like this:

"You sat on your desk,
swinging your legs,
reading a poem by Yeats
to the bored girls,
except my heart stumbled and blushed
as it fell in love with the words and I saw the tree
in the scratched old desk under my hands,
heard the bird in the oak outside scribble itself on the air."

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Carol Ann Duffy was born on the 23rd of December, 1955, in Glasgow, Scotland. Her family was Roman Catholic and lived in general poverty.

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Duffy had 4 brothers, herself being the eldest, named Frank, Adrian, Eugene and Tim.
She came from Irish decent as grandparents on both sides of her family were Irish.