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The Bees take flight...

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I'm not sure I ever elaborated on the launch party I attended in London, and as I very kindly get invited to a great number of these, and probably manage about one a year, I really should tell you more because if there is one thing I like to do it is share the bounty and the good times with you all. Carol Ann Duffy's most recent collection The Bees released into the world via a wonderfully warm and vibrant (oh alright then, buzzing) event at Goldsboro Books in Cecil Court, just off Charing...Read Full Story

Bookish Delights of 2011 No 2 ~ Candlestick Press & poetry

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So after I had read that piece in Slightly Foxed about Sebald's Austerlitz , the piece that followed was about Candlestick Press and Jenny Swann's really innovative poetry series set up with a small inheritance left by her mother, so I thought I might as well read that again as well. Each immaculate twelve-page poetry collection is themed (dogs, cats, tea, birds, bicycles, puddings, lovely unusual things that will mean and convey something to both givers and recipients) and at £4.95 as...Read Full Story

The Christmas Truce ~ Carol Ann Duffy

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11.11.11 on Friday, and the day that this year seems to hold even greater significance with those numbers, and after our recent Edward Thomas reading, making it also the perfect moment to say the Christmas word a bit early I know, but to show you Carol Ann Duffy's seasonal offering. And it is quietly wonder-ful. The Christmas Truce, and most of you will know what follows. Christmas Eve in the trenches of France, the guns were quiet. The dead lay still in No Man's Land - Freddie, Franz...Read Full Story

Booker winner, poet laureate vie for UK Costa prize

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LONDON ( Reuters ) - Julian Barnes , who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction , and Carol Ann Duffy , Britain 's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday. English author Barnes is one of four shortlisted for the best novel category for "The Sense of an Ending," the work that won him the coveted Booker award last month at the fourth time of asking. Scottish writer Duffy, who was made the nation's poet in 2009, has been shortlisted in...Read Full Story

Prize draw copies of The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

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A copy of The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy to five lucky winners worldwide today and my thanks to Picador for sharing the buzz love. So do a bit of a wiggle and dance along to comments to leave your mark ... in fact do write a little bee poem if you feel so inclined, though sadly it won't hold much sway with the Random Number Generator. However it will give us all a good laugh, and here's a picture of a bumbley one for some inspiration.... don't worry, Carol Ann probably needs help like this too...Read Full Story
Carol Ann Duffy and the Welsh poet and translator Elin ap Hywel are to judge the entries submitted to a bilingual poetry completion on the theme of climate change. The contest is being organised by the energy charity Awel Aman Tawe, the body behind the ...  
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In the latest poetic punch-up, Duffy and Hill show why poets find it hard to be team playersNo sooner are Judith Palmer, the Poetry Society director, and Fiona Sampson, the Poetry Review editor, out of the news than another poetry punch-up enters the ring. This time it's two grandees of the literary world. Geoffrey Hill, the Oxford professor of poetry, in the blue corner, throws a slug at Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, in the red corner...  
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Geoffrey Hill and Carol Ann Duffy are very different sorts of poet, but simply because they are both poets, they have more in common with each other than either has with those of us who are not poets. An argument between them is an argument ...  
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Oxford professor of poetry attacks Duffy's praise of text language, and compares hers to Mills & BoonCarol Ann Duffy might have won numerous literary awards and become the country's first female poet laureate, but Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill has nevertheless compared her writing to that of a Mills & Boon author.Hill, who frequently earns the sobriquet of the English language's greatest living poet but whose learned poems are also...  
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A simmering spat-storm burbling on the other side of the pond may well spill over into the international poetry world primarily because Oxford Poetry Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) delivered a lecture on the state of the art and soundly put the UK's ...  
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In a series of special Meet the Author interviews, Nick Higham meets the winners of this year's Costa Book Awards. One of the winners of the five individual awards for fiction, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book will be named overall Costa ...  
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Here are my findings. First, in name and consequence, comes Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, with a volume entitled The Bees (Picador). The laureate's life can blight the poet's song, but Duffy has defied gravity. She has not only made a ...  
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POET laureate and LIverpool University graduate Carol Ann Duffy is one of five writers shortlisted for the Costa Book of the Year Award. Duffy was announced the winner of the Costa Poetry Award earlier this month for her book The Bees and will now be ...  
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He also won the Whitbread poetry award in 2000 for "The Asylum Dance" and this year beat seven other nominees including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy for her latest collection "The Bees." Duffy spoke out in support of the Poetry Book Society ...  
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I had had enough of those types of poetry festivals to last me into the next world. But the fact that Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's new Poet Laureate, would be present, a poet I had long admired, and the international character of the event intrigued me.  
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