Carol Ann Duffy

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December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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female

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Poetry, Children's Books

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Books by Carol Ann Duffy

Average rating: 3.94 · 1,979 ratings · 221 reviews · 54 distinct works

	The World's Wife 3.89 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Rapture 4.11 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy 3.84 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mean Time 4.00 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Love Poems 4.29 avg rating — 66 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Bees 4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Feminine Gospels: Poems 3.85 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy (Author), Nicoletta Ceccoli (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	New Selected Poems 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past 3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

“The stars are filming us for no one.”
― Carol Ann Duffy

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“You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy

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“She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Another Night Before Christmas

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