Carol Ann Duffy Biographical Info by Sean Nicholas Chow https://padlet.com/00701800661/j4wzsal0ifgljk5a en-us 2022-10-13 15:34:34 UTC 2026-01-14 21:16:01 UTC hello@padlet.com Poetry 00701800661 https://padlet.com/00701800661/j4wzsal0ifgljk5a/wish/2339010478
  • Carol Ann Duffy is best known for her romantic love poems in the form of monologues
    • love
    • loss
    • nostalgia
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  • Wrote about queer romantic feelings in much of her work, especially in Mean Time and the Selected Poem's of 1994
  • Controversy pertaining to Poet Laureate of the UK
    • Prime minister Blair believed Duffy's sexuality would not be received well by "Middle England"
    • Andrew Motion was then made Poet Laureate initially
    • Duffy then took over Motion's post in 2009
      • claims only did so because she would be the first woman since the 17th century inception of the poet laureate
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  • Exemplified in Standing Female Nude:
    • model's acceptance of traditional attitudes towards women's beauty and standards
    • Duffy then "deconstructs" these standards further in the poem
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  • Born December 23rd, 1955
    • Gorbals, Glasgow in Scottland
  • daughter of two Glasgow radicals

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  • partnered with another female
    • also a poet
  • raising child together
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  • written about by Katherine Viner in the Guardian Weekend
    • read by people who don't read poetry
    • respected by peers
  • Antioch Review by Jane Satterfield
    • "masterful subversions of myth and history,”
    • POV from women behind famous male figures
    • wives of Aesop, Pontius Pilate, Faust, Tiresias, Herod, Quasimodo, Lazarus, Sisyphus, Freud, Darwin, King Kong

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  • professor of contemporary poetry
  • creative director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University
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  • family moved to England at age 6
  • Attended Saint Augustin's RC Primary School
    • talent recognized by teachers
    • keen reader and poet since early age
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  • Age 15, one of Duffy's teachers, June Scriven sent Duffy's poems to publisher
    • publisher impressed
    • poems were published
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  • started relationship with poet Adrian Henri
    • lived with him until 1982
    • enrolled into Liverpool University to get closer to Henri
    • wrote two plays and a pamphlet, "Fifth Last Song"
      • received philosophy degree in 1977
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  • rose to fame when winning Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition
    • won with "Whoever She Was"
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  • first woman to be appointed position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
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  • won with "Standing Female Nude"
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  • "Selling Manhattan"
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  • "Rapture"
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  • Gender
  • violence
  • tyranny
  • oppression
  • contemporary culture
  • forms of alienation
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  • conversational diction
  • dramatic monologue
  • serious and humorous tones
  • postmodernism/ poststructuralism
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