Padlet Bio for Poet by Audrey Fierro https://padlet.com/1000054893_2/r4igoyn9bxa0u8t9 en-us 2024-09-12 18:13:11 UTC 2024-09-13 18:18:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f4d8.png Childhood/adolescence 1000054893_2 https://padlet.com/1000054893_2/r4igoyn9bxa0u8t9/wish/3117179006

  • Born December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland

  • At 6 years moved to England

  • went to convent schools

  • published poetry magazines at age 14

(Carol Ann Duffy-Encyclopaedia Britannica)

  • parents are Mary Black and Frank Duffy

  • Irish Catholic descent

  • 4 younger brothers

(Carol Ann Duffy - Poets.org)

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  • Attended Liverpool University and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1977

  • published several books

  • 1988-1989 worked as a poetry critic for The Guardian.

  • Editor for the poetry magazine Ambit.

  • 1996 began lecturing at Manchester Metropolitan University,

  • creative director of the Writing School.

    • (Carol Ann Duffy-Encyclopaedia Britannica)

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  • T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection of linked love poems

  • standing Female Nude, winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award

  • Selling Manhattan, a Somerset Maugham Award

  • Mean Time, won the Whitbread Poetry Award

    • (Carol Ann Duffy, Blue Flower Arts)

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    (Carol Ann Duffy, British Council)


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