Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is 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 this position. Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.
Books
Nature
2023
Standing Female Nude
2001
The World's Wife
1999
Pablo Picasso's Noel
2018
The Hat
2008
I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine
Poems for Young Feminists
1992
Feminine Gospels
2002
The King of Christmas
2016
Empty Nest
2021
Faery Tales
2014
Bethlehem
2013
Underwater Farmyard
2002
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
2014
Jubilee Lines
2012
Rat's Tales
2012
Collected Poems
2015
Poems of the Decade
An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry: Selected by William Sieghart, Founder of the Forward Prizes
2001
The Skipping-Rope Snake
2003
The Lost Happy Endings
2006
Selected Poems
1994
Advent Street
2022
The Princess' Blankets
2008
Frost Fair
2019
Another Night Before Christmas
2005
The Wren-Boys
2015
Sincerity
2018
Wenceslas
2012
The Oldest Girl in the World
2000
New Selected Poems, 1984-2004
2004
Beasts And Beauties
Eight Tales From Europe
2004
The Christmas Truce
2011
Meeting Midnight
1999
Armistice
A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace
2018
Off the Shelf
A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse
2016
Selling Manhattan
1987
The Stolen Childhood And Other Dark Fairy Tales
2003
1914
Poetry Remembers
2013
The Salmon Carol Ann Duffy
Poems Selected and New, 1985-1999
1996
Love
2023
Love Poems
2009
Queen Munch and Queen Nibble
2002
Empty Nest
Poems for Families
2022
Hand in Hand
2001
Moon Zoo
2004
Everyman
2015
Answering Back
Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past
2007
Mean Time
1993
Ritual Lighting
Laureate Poems
2014
Politics
2023
The Other Country
1990
The Tear Thief
2007
The Gift
2010
Rapture
2005
Last Post
2023
101 Poems for Children
A Laureate's Choice
2012
New and Collected Poems for Children
2009
Elegies
2023
Mrs. Scrooge
A Christmas Poem
2009
The Bees
2011
