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Five Scottish love poems for Valentine's Day
In one of the most famous love poems of all time ... On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s choice of present makes some droopy flowers from the garage look thoughtful. Onions are cheap, not ...
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Carol Ann Duffy
Originally This autobiographical poem sees Duffy considering and exploring the sense of isolation and confusion felt when she moved as a child from Scotland to England. This poem addresses the ...
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Lay off Carol Ann Duffy: she's a writer Scotland should be proud of
and Ms Duffy's poems about childhood, love and human relationships are as relevant to Scotland as they are to anywhere else. Carol Ann Duffy was the first ever female Poet Laureate of the UK and ...
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Husband's poem on Sylvia Plath’s suicide published
The poem is believed to have been written in the early 1970s. Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's current poet laureate, called it the "darkest poem (Hughes) has ever written." ...
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Carol Ann Duffy
Originally This autobiographical poem sees Duffy considering and exploring the sense of isolation and confusion felt when as a child her parents moved from the Gorbals in Glasgow to England.