Carol Ann Duffy

POET Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is one of 20 writers shortlisted for Scotland's largest literary prize. The Glasgow-born poet's latest collection The Bees has been nominated in the poetry section of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2012 ...  

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to write her own versions of age-old fairytales for a new family stage show this Christmas. Duffy will adapt stories including The Pied Piper of Hamelin for the production, titled Rats' Tales, at the Royal ...  

Poet laureate will retell classic stories for Royal Exchange Manchester's winter show Rats' TalesPoet laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to retell classic folk stories including The Pied Piper of Hamelin for the theatre this Christmas.Duffy is collaborating with director, designer and choreographer Melly Still on the production Rats' Tales, which is set to be shown at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester between November and January. The show is...  

To mark the Queen's jubilee year, the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has edited a specially commissioned anthology of poems - Jubilee Lines. She's asked 60 poets to write 60 poems, each inspired by a year of the Queen's reign.  

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Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, this being National Poetry Month, at least for a few more days, we talk to two poets who've taken on a very public role. CAROL ANN DUFFY, U.K. Poet Laureate: Look, we all have wishes, granted. But who has wishes granted? Him. JEFFREY BROWN: Carol Ann Duffy is poet laureate of the United Kingdom. At 56, she is the first woman ...  

PUPILS’ poetry was lavished with praise as Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy visited a North East school. The award-winning scribe spent the morning at Whitley Bay High School listening to poems that students of all ages had written especially for her.  

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy visited students for tea and a poetry reading. Duffy, who was the first female to be awarded the accolade, travelled from Manchester to meet pupils at Rosebery School in White Horse Drive, Epsom. A selection of students were ...  

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy visited students for tea and a poetry reading. Duffy, who was the first female to be awarded the accolade, travelled from Manchester to meet pupils at Rosebery School in White Horse Drive, Epsom. A selection of students were ...  

Permission has been obtained to use verse from poets such as current poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and past poet laureate Andrew Motion. It will include local poems written by schoolchildren. Carlisle-based artist Derek Eland, who had several paintings ...  

Permission has been obtained to use verse from poets such as current poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and past poet laureate Andrew Motion. It will include local poems written by schoolchildren. Carlisle-based artist Derek Eland, who had several paintings ...  

Britain’s poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy offers a companion to celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. To mark every year of the monarch’s 60-year reign, Duffy has collated specially commissioned works by acclaimed contemporary ...  

For many years Matthew was brought up alongside Carol Ann Duffy's daughter, Ella, when Kay and Duffy lived together in London and Manchester, and the pair remain close despite their mothers having separated after 15 years. The writer Ali Smith ...  

The launch will take place in Holy Trinity Church during an evening of readings by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion as part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. More 200,000 people a year visit Holy Trinity Church.  

The launch will take place in Holy Trinity Church during an evening of readings by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion which forms part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival. Over 200,000 people a year visit Holy ...  

MANCHESTER: April 3-7 – Good Mourning Mrs Brown starring Brendan O’Carroll at the Apollo Theatre, Ardwick Green ... Carol Ann Duffy returns to host more hugely successful poetry readings. Joining Carol Ann are new writers from Manchester Metropolitan ...  

The list of patrons and performers includes the likes of Stephen Fry, Carol Ann Duffy, Desmond Tutu, David Frost, Bob Geldof, Bill Clinton, Jon Snow, Tony Benn, and Sabine Bahn. The 2012 Hay Festival programme for this year reveals one of the best line-ups ...  

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.  

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.  

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.  

To mark the Queen's jubilee year, the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has edited a specially commissioned anthology of poems - Jubilee Lines. She has asked 60 poets to write 60 poems, each inspired by a year of the Queen's reign. One of the poets involved ...  

The latest collection from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Jane Harris’s novel about obsessive love, and a history of cycling are among the contenders for Scotland’s largest literary prize. In the first book category, Rachel Boast’s poetry collection ...  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.  

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.  

In June, Miles will also appear at Bridlington Poetry Festival, which poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy headlined in 2011. “I’m really pleased to be doing these events,” says Miles, who is also a storyteller and musician and works regularly in schools ...  

Other plans include a specially written piece by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the trials which took place in Lancaster in 1612. "Everybody who comes from Lancashire knows about the Lancashire witches, but not ...  

The prize, established by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, rewards "the most exciting contribution to poetry" over the last year. A drama documentary by Simon Armitage, an orchestral piece by Christopher Reid set in the first world war, and a sequence of ...  

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.  

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.  

‘Poets don’t count well,’ says Ian Duhig in his contribution to Jubilee Lines — an assertion unexpectedly confirmed by Carol Ann Duffy’s preface. Admittedly, if the book did contain one poem for every year since 1952, there’d be an annoyingly untidy 6  

Organised by the trust, in association with Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, the festival includes live readings from prize-winning poets, discussions and lectures. Trust poet-in-residence Carola Luther will read her own work and run a workshop on Poems for ...  

As well as commissioning Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy to write a piece inspired by the events, the couple will also be taking children from schools in Padiham and Slaidburn on a walk up Pendle Hill. Pete said: “This is the culmination of a lot of previous work.  

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.  

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.  

In June, Miles will also appear at Bridlington Poetry Festival, which poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy headlined in 2011. “I’m really pleased to be doing these events,” says Miles, who is also a storyteller and musician and works regularly in schools ...  

Clichéd as this may sound, the collection is something of a curate’s egg. It is, however, as its editor Carol Ann Duffy assures us in her foreword, “democratic”. You sense that one or two poets have struggled to sum up an entire year in a few short ...  

Designers for the production include Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili and the performances will include poetry from Seamus Heaney and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Some of the soldiers who took part in The Two Worlds of Charlie F were amputees ...  

Candidates? Britain is full of gifted people – for a titular head, think Joanna Lumley, Colin Firth, Jenni Murray, Trevor McDonald, Carol Ann Duffy, David Attenborough, David Starkey, David Beckham, Jamie Oliver, Robert Winston, Cliff Richard ...  

Elaine LeComte of Falmouth, Jacqueline Hutchinson of Duxbury and Carol Ann Murphy of Norwell ... Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Duffy-Poule Funeral Home, 20 Peck St., Attleboro, where the Paille family will receive friends on ...  

It gives us new insight." Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, likened the poem to a Shakespearean tragedy. "It seems to touch a deeper, darker place than any poem he's ever written," she told Channel 4 News.  

Faithfull is the latest cultural figure to curate a personal exhibition at the gallery following Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and hat designer Philip Treacy. The exhibition runs until 2 September.  

Faithfull is the latest cultural figure to curate a personal exhibition at the gallery following Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and hat designer Philip Treacy. The exhibition runs until 2 September.  

Duffy declined to comment on the LME at the meeting ... (Additional reporting by Ann Saphir; Editing by Carol Bishopric and Ed Davies)