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#BookWormSat - powerful, potent crafted words from #CarolAnnDuffy - thanks @21rosa.bsky.social for sharing!
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We do our best, we Queens, we mothers, mothers of Queens.

We wade through blood for our sleeping girls. We have daggers for eyes.

Behind our lullabies, the hooves of terrible horses thunder and drum.

'Queen Herod' Carol Ann Duffy
🎨 Medb Chruachna, warrior queen of Connacht
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March 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

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October 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Today's Lines at Lunchtime is 'Talent' By Carol Ann Duffy

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July 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Poetry Please is back! Danez Smith joins Roger McGough with their selection of listeners’ choices incl #ThomGunn #CarolAnnDuffy & #KendrickLamar 4pm Tues 19 Nov @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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American poet and performer Danez Smith makes a selection from your poetry requests.
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November 19, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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“In a cul-de-sac, a strange boy threw a stone.
I crawled through a hedge into long grass
at the edge of a small wood, lonely and thrilled.
The green silence gulped once and swallowed me whole.”
Carol Ann Duffy (1977)
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February 27, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Today's Lines at Lunchtime is 'Another Night Before Christmas' by Carol Ann Duffy!

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December 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Rain by Carol Ann Duffy
Not so hot as this for a hundred years. You were where I was going. I was in tears. I surrendered my heart to the judgement of my peers. A century’s heat in the garden, fierce as love. You returned on the day I had to leave. I mimed the full, rich, busy life I had to live. Hotter than hell. I burned for you day and night; got bits of your body wrong, bits of it right, in the huge mouth of the dark, in the bite of the light. I planted a rose, burnt orange, the colour of flame, gave it the last of the water, gave it your name. It flared back at the sun in a perfect rhyme. Then the rain came, like stammered kisses at first on the back of my neck. I unfurled my fist for the rain to caress with its lips. I turned up my face, and water flooded my mouth, baptised my head, and the rainclouds gathered like midnight overhead, and the rain came down like a lover comes to a bed.
October 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Poetry Please bbcpoetryplease is back! #DanezSmith joins #RogerMcgough with their selection of listeners’ choices incl #ThomGunn #CarolAnnDuffy & #KendrickLamar 4pm Tues 19 Nov #BBCRadio4 #BBCSounds
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American poet and performer Danez Smith makes a selection from your poetry requests.
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November 19, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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#CarolAnnDuffy writes ‘bombsite’ #poem about #Trump ’s UK state visit

Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war

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September 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Kerpow!!!!

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Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war
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September 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war
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September 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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the stars are filming us for no one
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December 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy
Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth enters our hearts, that small familiar pain; then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train. Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales console the lodger looking out across a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls a child's name as though they named their loss. Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer — Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.
April 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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In Mrs Tilscher's Class by Carol Ann Duffy
You could travel up the Blue Nile with your finger, tracing the route while Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswân. That for an hour, then a skittle of milk and the chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust. A window opened with a long pole. The laugh of a bell swung by a running child. This was better than home. Enthralling books. The classroom glowed like a sweet shop. Sugar paper. Coloured shapes. Brady and Hindley faded, like the faint, uneasy smudge of a mistake. Mrs Tilscher loved you. Some mornings, you found she’d left a good gold star by your name. The scent of a pencil slowly, carefully, shaved. A xylophone’s nonsense heard from another form. Over the Easter term, the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks. Three frogs hopped in the playground, freed by a dunce, followed by a line of kids, jumping and croaking away from the lunch queue. A rough boy told you how you were born. You kicked him, but stared at your parents, appalled, when you got back home. That feverish July, the air tasted of electricity. A tangible alarm made you always untidy, hot, fractious under the heavy, sexy sky. You asked her how you were born and Mrs Tilscher smiled, then turned away. Reports were handed out. You ran through the gates, impatient to be grown, as the sky split open into a thunderstorm.
September 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Carol Ann Duffy - Words, Wide Night.

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Words, Wide Night by Carol Ann Duffy Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
September 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#CarolAnnDuffy nails it 😕
State/Banquet Carol Ann Duffy A new poem by the former poet laureate to mark Trump's state visit How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service, among the rocks and the rubble, laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table, six crystal glasses per setting. It took eight servants three weeks to polish - silver coated in a thin layer of gold - even the concrete dust in the air seems glamourised and the ruins are decked in the uplifting flags of democracy. To start, fillet of Dover sole filled with salmon mousse, served on a bed of leeks with white wine sauce. Poached Sandringham venison with truffles to follow, then Key Lime Pie, and among the wines, Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, 1990. Yum-yum. Let the trumpets sound on the bombsite as the great and the good pick their way through, and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Let me be clear. When I think of great poets, I love #EmilyDickenson #CarolAnnDuffy #DylanThomas #HughMacdiarmid #LordByron and #Shakespeare. However, I also consider #Tupac #IceCube, #EasyE #Haystack and #Eminem to be just as great.
February 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Words, Wide Night by Carol Ann Duffy
Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Nostalgia by Carol Ann Duffy | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/05/nost...

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Nostalgia by Carol Ann Duffy | Poems Rethabile Likes
Carol Ann Duffy's 'Nostalgia' traces the strange homesickness of mercenaries. A word invented to name a wound — the ache for what is lost.
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May 28, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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Carol Ann Duffy is an acclaimed Scottish poet and playwright renowned for accessible, dramatic monologues exploring love, gender, identity, loss, and everyday spirituality.

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Carol Ann Duffy's Prayer captures quiet faith in ordinary sounds—from tree songs to shipping forecasts—in Mean Time. A moving sonnet on secular grace
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February 24, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Beloved lesbionic Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy was BOTD in 1945, turning 80 today. #carolannduffy # bornonthisday #supergays #poetlaureate
Carol Ann Duffy
Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy was BOTD in 1945. Born in Glasgow and raised in England, she began publishing her poetry at 14, and studied philosophy at Liverpool University. She worked as a poetry …
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December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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May 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Both #MaggieOFarrell and #CarolAnnDuffy give Anne Hathaway power by giving her creativity 🖊️.

This week, we deep-dive into Duffy’s sonnet #AnneHathaway in the latest of our subscriber-series on the sonnet! To access this conversation, subscribe to #SecretLifeOfBooks on Apple Podcasts or Patreon .
December 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM