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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. Scottish poet and playwright (born 1955) Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL HonFBA HonFRSE 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 (1955-12-23 ...
Rapture is a collection of poetry written by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate from 2009 to 2019.It marks her 37th work of poetry and has been described as "intensely personal, emotional and elegiac, and markedly different from Duffy’s other works" by the British Council. [1]
The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador [1] and Anvil Press Poetry [2] and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. [3] Duffy's poems in The World's Wife focus on either well known female figures or fictional counterparts to well known male ...
"Education for Leisure" is a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy which explores the mind of a person who is planning to commit a murder. [1] Until 2008 the poem was studied at GCSE level in England and Wales as part of the AQA Anthology, a collection of poems by modern poets such as Duffy and Seamus Heaney.
"Elvis's Twin Sister" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy [1] that is said to reflect "the hidden lives of generations of overlooked women" as part of the collection The World's Wife, of 30 similar poems dealing with the female relatives of famous men throughout history.
Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight. Anne remembers their lovemaking as a form of "romance and drama", unlike the "prose" written on the best bed used by guests, "I hold him in the casket of my widow's head/ as he held me upon that next best bed".
The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools ...
Carol Ann Duffy "The Little Red Cap" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy published by Picador as a part of her 1999 collection of poetry titled The World's Wife.The book consists of poems that are based on old stories and tales in which she reshapes in terms of modern day culture.