Carol Ann Duffy Poet Laureate

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Carol Ann Duffy has been appointed UK's poet Laureate. She is the first woman to be given the position in 400 years. Tony Blair knocked her back in 1999 when she was a firm favourite because he didn't think "middle England was ready for a woman and a lesbian"

She has said that she will donate the modest stipend towards a poetry prize of some sort.

 

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Carol Ann Duffy has been appointed UK's poet Laureate. She is the first woman to be given the position in 400 years. Tony Blair knocked her back in 1999 when she was a firm favourite because he didn't think "middle England was ready for a woman and a lesbian"

She has said that she will donate the modest stipend towards a poetry prize of some sort.

"Little Red Cap" is a wonderful poem and Duffy is one of my favorite poets. Good for Carol Ann for earning honors that are well deserved.

(Blair's comments just reinforce my belief that he was simply a hand puppet that GWB used to jerk off)

 

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(Blair's comments just reinforce my belief that he was simply a hand puppet that GWB used to jerk off)

Well, wasn't it special of him to speak for England and know what they were ready for or not.

I'm going to go google some Duffy poems. Anyone have links, suggestions? Little Red Cap?

 

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Well, wasn't it special of him to speak for England and know what they were ready for or not.

I'm going to go google some Duffy poems. Anyone have links, suggestions? Little Red Cap?

Doing a quick Google scan, I don't see a copy of "Little Red Hat", but I did find a couple of her other poems.

YOU
Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.


Falling in love
is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.
I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone's face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

and I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.​

 

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Doing a quick Google scan, I don't see a copy of "Little Red Hat", but I did find a couple of her other poems.

YOU
Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.


Falling in love
is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.
I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone's face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

and I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.​

Thanks for finding the poems.
Does she mostly do love/erotic poems?

 

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Hopefully this link will workwww.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5263796/Carol-Ann-Duffy/The-rhyme-and-reason-for-our-first-female-laureate.html

Her work is pretty varied in subject but frequently reflects her working class origins . She tends to take fairly obvious subjects and uses simple words to express quite complex ideas. At her worst she can seem very bland but her best stuff is pretty damn good. It seems very difficult to find much of any substance on the web. Most are just short poems which whilst popular are not really representitive of her better work.

One of her better short poems is 'Valentine' but I can't find it. Damn.

 

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Hopefully this link will workwww.telegraph.co.uk/culture/5263796/Carol-Ann-Duffy/The-rhyme-and-reason-for-our-first-female-laureate.html

Her work is pretty varied in subject but frequently reflects her working class origins . She tends to take fairly obvious subjects and uses simple words to express quite complex ideas. At her worst she can seem very bland but her best stuff is pretty damn good. It seems very difficult to find much of any substance on the web. Most are just short poems which whilst popular are not really representitive of her better work.

One of her better short poems is 'Valentine' but I can't find it. Damn.

I heard Valentine on NPR today. SOunded good, but I wasn't fully focused on the radio