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Duffy DBE, Professor Carol Ann

 
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Synopsis

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

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About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.

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‘One of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry – any poetry – for years. Her project is both subtle and experimental’ Independent
‘Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself’ Scotsman
In her highly praised fourth collection, for which she won the Forward Poetry Prize for best collection and the Whitbread Poetry Award, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. Containing more personal poems than in her earlier collections, here Duffy explores the nuances and sometimes painful nature of love and its relationship with time and memory over the course in which it is felt and fades. The poignant, authentic, striking poems of Mean Time have been loved by readers and critics alike since publication in 1993.

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