Carol Ann Duffy
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Dame Carol Ann Duffy 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.
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When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005.
There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration - a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression.
Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005.
Somewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990).
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Georgie HenleyAlso in TIDE (2017)
Sarah ParishAlso in Snow White: The Sacrifice (2025)
Sharon D. ClarkeAlso in National Theatre Live: Everyman (2015)
SeemaAlso in My Country: A Work in Progress (2017)
Dermot CrowleyAlso in National Theatre Live: Everyman (2015)
Ben CromptonAlso in Snow White: The Sacrifice (2025)About this person
Dame Carol Ann Duffy 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.
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