Carol Ann Duffy by Aidan Gonzales https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf en-us 2023-09-11 18:12:01 UTC 2023-09-22 04:42:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Origin 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2697991525 Carol Ann Duffy was born on the 23rd of December, 1955, in Glasgow, Scotland. Her family was Roman Catholic and lived in general poverty.

]]> 2023-09-11 18:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2697991525 Family 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698945158 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. ]]> 2023-09-12 05:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698945158 Education 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698959611 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."]]> 2023-09-12 05:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698959611 Career 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698963554 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.]]> 2023-09-12 05:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698963554 Sexuality 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698965851 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 ]]> 2023-09-12 05:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698965851 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698966336 2023-09-12 05:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698966336 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698973492 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
]]> 2023-09-12 06:01:28 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698973492 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698978279 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. ]]> 2023-09-12 06:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698978279 Style 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698979842 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.]]> 2023-09-12 06:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698979842 Works Cited 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698980724




]]> 2023-09-12 06:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698980724 0070186296 https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698982216 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"]]> 2023-09-12 06:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/0070186296/ahcqwznmqee5setf/wish/2698982216