Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSLis a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position...
writing feelings trying
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
machines who-we-are being-human
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
memories inspiration imagination
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
his-love love-poems donne
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
thinking poet our-time
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
oysters creative trying
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
hate gold want
Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
book writing way
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
giving better-off-dead want
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
left
What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
prayer ice sea
She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
stars
The stars are filming us for no one.
children thinking enabling
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
doe fine ifs
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.