Carol Ann Duffy | |
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![]() Duffy in June 2009 | |
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom | |
In office 1 May 2009 – 10 May 2019 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Andrew Motion |
Succeeded by | Simon Armitage |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Glasgow, Scotland | 23 December 1955
Children | 1[2] |
Alma mater | University of Liverpool (B.A. Hons, Philosophy) |
Occupation | Poet, playwright |
Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL HonFBA HonFRSE (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish[3] poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009,[4] and her term expired in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.[5]
Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Book Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in accessible language.[6]
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