Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955, Glasgow) is a poet, playwright, and freelance writer, who currently holds the position of Britain's poet laureate. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University and Creative Director of the Manchester Writing School, based in the university's Department of English. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, and a CBE in 2002.
Duffy succeeded Andrew Motion as poet laureate...
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Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL (born 23 December 1955, Glasgow) is a poet, playwright, and freelance writer, who currently holds the position of Britain's poet laureate. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University and Creative Director of the Manchester Writing School, based in the university's Department of English. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, and a CBE in 2002.
Duffy succeeded Andrew Motion as poet laureate on 1 May 2009, a position that carries an annual stipend of £5,750. She is the first woman and the first openly bisexual person to hold the position, as well as the first laureate to be chosen in the 21st century. Moreover, Duffy has been described as the first Scottish poet laureate, with Peter Forbes arguing in The Independent that Duffy's success is part of a renaissance in Scottish poetry.
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955 to Scot Frank Duffy and May Black, who was Irish; she is the eldest of their five children, and has four...
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