Carol Ann Duffy

About Carol Ann Duffy

Standing Female Nude, Mean Time, and Rapture are among the poetry books by the former British Poet Laureate. Her poetic works, which address themes of gender roles and violence, received the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, among other honors.

Dame Carol Ann Duffy is an English poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University and was named a Poet in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first woman, the first Scottish poet and the first known LGBT poet to hold the position. Her collections include nude female standing, award-winning of the Scottish Art Council; Selling Manhattan, won the Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time, won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture, T. S. Eliot Award Winner. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.

Monarch	Elizabeth II
Nationality	Scottish
Preceded by	Andrew Motion
Born	December 23, 1955, Glasgow, Scotland
Children	1
Occupation	Poet, playwright
Succeeded by	Simon Armitage
Alma mater	University of Liverpool (B.A. Hons, Philosophy)

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Trivia

She earned a spot on a 2013 BBC Radio list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the United Kingdom.

Carol Ann Duffy before fame

She earned a philosophy degree from the University of Liverpool. Fleshweathercock and Other Poems, her debut poetry effort, was released in 1974.

Achievement of Carol Ann Duffy

She was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio in 2013.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Carol Ann Duffy family life

She was born in Scotland to a Catholic family and eventually moved to England. Ella was her daughter from her marriage to Peter Benson.

Associations of Carol Ann Duffy

Poet Laureate was a distinction she shared with Randall Jarrell.

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