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Carl Ann Duffy is a British poet who was born on December 23, 1955, in Glasglow, Scotland, to Irish Catholic parents Mary Black and Frank Duffy. Some of her teachers noticed her writing abilities. She started writing poetry at a young age and was an avid reader. When Duffy was 15 years old, one of her instructors, June Scriven, offered her poetry to a publisher. The publisher was impressed and decided to publish them.

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Duffy applied to Liverpool University. After receiving her philosophy degree, she started producing books and traveling to read and teach her poetry. She also worked from 1988 to 1989 as a poetry reviewer for The Guardian and the editor of the poetry journal Ambit.

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She is one of Britain's most well-known and successful modern poets, and although some reviewers have attacked Duffy's writing for being openly populist, her work is generally acclaimed for being both literary and approachable.

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Some of the subjects that Duffy tackles include language and the portrayal of reality, the formation of the self, gender difficulties, contemporary culture, and various manifestations of oppression, alienation, and social injustice. Because she employs everyday and conversational language, her poetry appears to be quite straightforward.

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Feminism - objectification of women, beauty standards