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Photo by Pan Macmillan

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Photo by Jasleen Sondhi

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Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland on December 23, 1955. Her Parents are Mary Black and Frank Duffy, who both are of Irish Catholic descent. (Bullock)

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Lived in Glasgow, Scotland until she was 6, then she moved to Staffordshire, England.

Duffy was raised alongside her 4 younger brothers in Staffordshire, England where her father worked as a sitter for English Electric. (Bullock)

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Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University (Macmillan)

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Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America.

She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019.

Won the Costa Poetry Award as a result of her many collections including Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees.

She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list.

In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.

(Macmillan)

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Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. (Macmillan)

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Recent collections have wrestled more directly with dark and tangled themes of love. (Bullock)

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Duffy- Feminist

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Duffy expresses topics such as gender and oppression, doing so using familiar and controversial language. This made her work accessible to a variety of readers. (Britannica)

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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. (Britannica)

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Duffy attended Liverpool University. She would then graduate with a degree in philosophy in 1977.

Duffy set to work publishing several books and traveling to read and teach her poetry.

She also worked as a poetry critic for The Guardian from 1988 to 1989 and as an editor for the poetry magazine Ambit

In 1996 she began lecturing in poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she later became creative director of the Writing School.

(Britannica)

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Her monologues address issues about love, loss, and identity

Her life and work have been a source of inspiration for many.

(Poem Analysis)

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Language and the representation of reality

The construction of self

Gender issues

Contemporary culture

Many different forms of alienation

Oppression and social inequality

(British Council)

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Havisham - Humorous elements & strong feminist messages

Nostalgia - Considers the importance of language and the meaning of the world

(Poem Analysis)

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Duffy's poetry is often cited as belonging to the category of post-postmodern literature.

sonnet

ballad

free forms

dramatic monologue

(Poem Analysis)