Carol Ann Duffy
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 | 23 December 1955 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool (B.A. Hons, Philosophy) |
| Occupation | Poet, playwright |
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, serving in this position until her term ended in 2019. She was the first female, the first Scottish-born and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.
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.