Padlet Bio by Cohen Kearl

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Carol Ann Duffy is a British poet that was born on the 23rd of December, 1955. She engaged in the of topics gender and oppression. Duffy lived in Glasgow, Scotland, until the age of six when she and her family moved to Stafford, England. Duffy grew up attending convent schools and began publishing poetry at age 14. In 1977, Duffy graduated Liverpool University in philosophy (Britannica).

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From 1988 to 1989, Duffy worked as a poetry critic for The Guardian and as an editor for the poetry magazine Ambit. Duffy began lecturing in poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 where she later became creative director of the Writing School (Britannica).

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Her work received accolades such as the Scottish Arts Council Award, the Costa Book Award for poetry, and the T.S. Eliot Prize (Britannica).

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Duffy's works are associated with feminism, as her poetry recenters female silenced voices from myth, history, and pop culture (Doug)

Feminism / marginalization of women

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"Each of the thirty poems in this book takes as its theme a character from history, mythology, literature or popular culture and gives it a feminist treatment" (Doug)

"Traditionally these women may have had no names; some of the poems’ titles follow a pattern (‘Mrs Midas’, ‘Mrs Darwin’, ‘Pygmalion’s Wife’ and so on) which bitterly suggests that women have been so neglected by history and culture the only way they can be identified is by association with their husbands’ name." (Doug)

Evil and Justice

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"Duffy adopts the voice of a convicted child murderer to explore notions such as the nature of evil, the limitations of the justice system and the phenomenon of ‘trial by media.’" (Doug)

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The World's Wife (1999) "sold more than 35,000 copies" (Peter)

Andrew Motion praised her early monologues and she was often "compared to Larkin." (Peter)

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