Книга: Carol Ann Duffy «A Laureate`s Choice: 101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" A Laureate`s Choice: 101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy ISBN:9781447205166 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2012)
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Carol Ann Duffy (born
Background
Carol Ann Duffy was born to Frank Duffy and May Black in Glasgow as the eldest child of the family, and has four brothers. She moved to Staffordshire at the age of four. Her father worked as a fitter for English Electric, stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Labour party and managed Stafford football club in his spare time. Raised
Carol Ann Duffy was a poetry critic for "
Poetry
Characterized by social critique channelled through dramatic monologue, Carol Ann Duffy's poems provide voices for an extraordinary number of contemporary characters, including a fairground psychopath, a literary biographer, a newborn baby, disinherited American Indians, and even a ventriloquist's dummy. Many of the poems reflect on time, change, and loss. In dramatizing scenes of childhood, adolescence, and adult life, whether personal or public, contemporary or historical, she discovers moments of consolation through love, memory, and language. She explores not only everyday experience, but also the rich fantasy life of herself and others.
Of her own writing, Carol Ann Duffy has said,"I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash' -
In her first collection "Standing Female Nude" (1985) she often uses the voices of outsiders while "Selling Manhattan" (1987) contains more personal verse. Her later collections are "The Other Country" (1990), "Mean Time" (1993) and "The World's Wife" (1999).
"The World's Wife" saw her retelling famous stories and fables -
Her next collection "Feminine Gospels" (2002) continues this vein, showing an increased interest in long narrative poems, accessible in style and often surreal in their imagery. Her most recent publication, "Rapture" (2005), is a series of intimate poems charting the course of a love affair, for which she won the £10,000 T.S Eliot poetry prize. In 2007 she published a poetry collection for children entitled "The Hat".
Many British students read her work while studying for
John Mullan wrote of her in the "Guardian" that
"Over the past decade, Carol Ann Duffy has been the most popular living poet in Britain, her sales greatly helped by the fact that she has succeeded Hughes and Larkin as the most common representative of contemporary poetry in schools (and, it seems, the most commonly read writer of verse afterShakespeare among interviewees for university English courses). There is a suspicion that Duffy,feminist and leftish, reassuringly suits the political preconceptions of many educators, but there are also aspects of her poetry that appeal to English teachers for good practical reasons. Her poems are frequently humorous; they use clear schemes of rhyme and metre; they can be satisfactorily decoded by the diligent close reader."
According to the journalist
"Her poems are accessible and entertaining, yet her form is classical, her technique razor-sharp. She is read by people who don't really read poetry, yet she maintains the respect of her peers. Reviewers praise her touching, sensitive, witty evocations of love, loss, dislocation, nostalgia; fans talk of greeting her at readings 'with claps and cheers that would not sound out of place at a pop concert'".
Other works
Carol Ann Duffy is also an acclaimed playwright, and has had plays performed at the
Controversies
Carol Ann Duffy was almost appointed the British
In August 2008, Duffy's poem 'Education for Leisure' was removed from the AQA examination board's GCSE poetry anthology. This followed a complaint from an external examiner relating to references to knife crime in the poem. According to news reports, schools were urged to destroy copies of the unedited anthology, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/04/gcses.english] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7594566.stm] although a statement from AQA denied this. Duffy countered the removal with a poem highlighting violence in other fiction such as
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Quotations
*"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."Fact|date=September 2008
*"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."Fact|date=September 2008
*"In the 1970s, when I started on the circuit, I was called a poetess. Older male poets, the Larkin generation, were both incredibly patronising and incredibly randy. If they weren’t patting you on the head, they were patting you on the bum."Fact|date=September 2008
*"I’m not a lesbian poet, whatever that is. If I am a lesbian icon and a role model, that’s great, but if it is a word that is used to reduce me, then you have to ask why someone would want to reduce me? I never think about it. I don’t care about it. I define myself as a poet and as a mother – that’s all."Fact|date=September 2008
*"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."Fact|date=September 2008
*"Childhood for children yet to be born will be darkened in ways we can't imagine."Fact|date=September 2008
Notes and References
External links
* http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/carolannduffy.html
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* http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,12887,1657055,00.html
* http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,902897,00.html
* http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050813/ai_n14885362
* http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=350
* http://web.channel4.com/learning/main/netnotes//programid1436.htm
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