Carol Ann Duffy

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

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

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

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 the poetry...Read Full Story

World Book Night is here at last and my choice of a book to give and made after a great deal of deliberation, The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy. I've bought enough copies of this one over the years for friends so I'm quite pleased to now have forty eight to give away. I've collected my box of books and was mightily relieved to find them safe and sensibly sealed in plastic inside the box, so any left out to the mercy of the weather around the country should be fine. Thank you for all your...Read Full Story

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

Preparations are well in hand for the dovegreyreader scribbles trip to the Wenlock Poetry Festival at Much Wenlock from 9th -11th April being organised by Anna Dreda and her team at Much Wenlock Books. I hope you're all ready for the off.Threatened train strikes and a nightmare rail journey home (even without strikes) on the Sunday see me travelling by coach, which will be different, but once I arrive I will be around and blogging live from the Festival.The programme is full of interesting...Read Full Story

'Here are my bees,brazen, blurs on paper,besotted; buzzwords, dancingtheir flawless, airy maps...' ...The Bees, a new collection from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, to be published on 7th October, but I just wanted to give you advance warning that this collection is everything and more, you might want to add it to your Christmas list and start dripping the hints in on a regular basis.  'The Bees is a work of great ecological and spiritual power, and Duffy's clearest affirmation yet of her...Read Full Story

No not in the Gok Wan way as mentioned earlier this week but talking of poetry as I was yesterday, and since it is now a regular component of my reading schedule, I thought I'd just share this beautiful little collection of newly-attired Carol Ann Duffys that have arrived from Picador. Having fallen in love with The World's Wife all over again after re-reading it again recently it's much more Carol Ann Duffy for me... remember this one, I've heard it so many times in so many different...Read Full Story

Posted by sudhakar on 08 Apr 2010 under Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity News By Hindustan Times Mumbai, April 9 — Mandira Bedi who is known to be an actor and an anchor, is also a poet. Whenever she tweets, she makes it rhyme. When quizzed, Mandira says, “Twitter is a beautiful space to be, I get to express myself and be me. There are so many things I want to say, believe me Tweeting is the only way twitter makes my heart flutter, I can tweet without a stutter. The world seems connected to me...Read Full Story