Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for a decade from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.
Books by Carol Ann Duffy
Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water
Politics
Love
Elegies
Advent Street
Empty Nest
Christmas Poems
Another Night Before Christmas
Frost Fair
Sincerity
Collected Poems
The Golden Treasury
Off The Shelf
Pablo Picasso's Noël
The Bees
The Other Country
The World's Wife
Feminine Gospels
Mean Time
Standing Female Nude
Selling Manhattan
The King of Christmas
The Wren-Boys
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
The Christmas Truce
Ritual Lighting
Bethlehem
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice
Wenceslas
New Selected Poems
Love Poems
Mrs Scrooge
To the Moon
Answering Back
Hand in Hand
Nature
Rapture