Background on Carol Ann Duffy by Tyler Bingham https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8 en-us 2023-09-11 19:11:47 UTC 2023-09-15 19:51:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Childhood 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698045754 - Carol Ann Duffy, in full Dame Carol Ann Duffy, (born December 23, 1955, Glasgow, Scotland), British poet whose well-known and well-liked poetry ]]> 2023-09-11 19:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698045754 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698046753 - 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.]]> 2023-09-11 19:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698046753 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698053620 2023-09-11 19:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698053620 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698056744 - 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.]]> 2023-09-11 19:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698056744 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698057410 - 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.]]> 2023-09-11 19:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698057410 Awards 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698062022 - 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


]]> 2023-09-11 19:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698062022 Topics 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698066024 - 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]]> 2023-09-11 19:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698066024 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698067541 - 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]]> 2023-09-11 19:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698067541 Feminism 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698078671 - 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]]> 2023-09-11 19:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698078671 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698080875 - 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.”]]> 2023-09-11 19:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698080875 Works Cited 1000056829 https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698083704 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NzQIpa8BJdv3dDQPv9nIiQMN1oC9HQKThlAHKAL8aUQ/edit?usp=sharing  ]]> 2023-09-11 19:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1000056829/4p7pj74k5lf5b3f8/wish/2698083704