The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy Scottish Literature The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy

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Carol Ann Duffy - Biography Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, Duffy was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position. Her poetry collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Duffy’s poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language. Duffy also writes drama and children’s literature, however she is best known for her poetry.