https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx en-us 2023-09-11 19:11:01 UTC 2023-09-11 20:11:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f578.png 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698042725 Carol Ann Duffy was born on December 23, 1955, to a family of Roman Catholics. She grew up in the poor part of Glasgow, Scotland. As she grew older, she and her family moved to Stafford, England. She was the oldest of five, with all her siblings being boys. Her father was a trade unionist, who stood unsuccessfully against the parliament in 1983 for the Labour Party. ]]> 2023-09-11 19:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698042725 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698052320 Duffy went to school within Stafford, with her schools being  Saint Austin's RC Primary School, St. Joseph's Convent School, and Stafford Girls' High School. Her teachers encouraged her literary talent, helping her foster a love for writing.]]> 2023-09-11 19:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698052320 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698058141 After attending Liverpool University, Duffy started writing her poetry. After a relationship with Adrian Henri, she began a 15-year-long relationship with a fellow poet named Jackie Kay. During their relationship, Duffy gave birth to her daughter, whose biological father is Peter Benson. When she was 15, Duffy had denounced her Catholic faith, stating she was an atheist. But later in her life, she said that "poetry and prayer are very similar." Duffy identifies as a lesbian.]]> 2023-09-11 19:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698058141 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698058943 2023-09-11 19:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698058943 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698060562 2023-09-11 19:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698060562 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698067415 -1983: National Poetry Competition 1st prize (for Whoever She Was) 

-1983: Greenwich Poetry Competition ("for Words of Absolution") 

-1984: Eric Gregory Award 

-1986: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Standing Female Nude) 

-1988: Somerset Maugham Award (for Selling Manhattan) 

-1989: Dylan Thomas Prize 

-1990: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for The Other Country 

-1992: Cholmondeley Award 

-1993: Whitbread Awards (for Mean Time) 

-1993: Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Mean Time) 

-1993: Forward Prize (for Mean Time) 

-1995: Lannan Award 1999: Signal Children's Poetry Prize 

-1999: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 

-2001: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts Award 

-2005: T S Eliot Prize (for Rapture) 

-2011: Costa Book Awards (Poetry), winner, The Bees

-2012 PEN/Pinter Prize 

-2013: Assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. 

-2015: Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy. 

2015: Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 

-2021: Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Laureate]]> 2023-09-11 19:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698067415 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698077224 -Language/the representation of reality
-Construction of the self
-Gender issues; 
-Contemporary culture
-Different forms of alienation
-Oppression/social inequality]]> 2023-09-11 19:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698077224 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698083148 2023-09-11 19:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698083148 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698083600 2023-09-11 19:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698083600 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698084296 2023-09-11 19:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698084296 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698084399 2023-09-11 19:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698084399 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698084806 2023-09-11 19:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698084806 0070188255 https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698102949 2023-09-11 20:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/0070188255/oik290enwm695wbx/wish/2698102949