Carol Ann Duffy

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Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.

Picador WBN My World Book Night 2011

Posted By Jazzmine Breary on Monday 19th Dec 2011

We asked members of the public who had given or received, Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife on World Book Night 2011 to share some of their experiences with us. Read below for some of their brilliant stories.

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Carol Ann Duffy reads a poem from The Bees

Posted By Lee Dibble on Friday 9th Dec 2011

Watch Carol Ann Duffy reading from her first collection as Poet Laureate, The Bees

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Carol Ann Duffy Christmas Competition

Posted By Sophie Jonathan on Thursday 1st Dec 2011

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Sophie Jonathan commented

Tuesday 6th Dec 2011 03:48

Hi David, It's great to know you like The Christmas Truce and also to hear about your great grandad - what a brave man, you must be very proud of him. Good luck with your own illustrations, and happy Christmas!

Davidbu1 commented

Sunday 4th Dec 2011 04:24

My name is David and I'm 12 years old My mum just brought this book for me and I couldn't be more pleased with it. my grandad was in the Christmas truce in the Scottish fusiliers and he was my great grandad William wood! Luckily he survived both wars but sadly I never got to see him. You have inspired me to write and illustrate my own Christmas truce book.

The Christmas Truce: One human episode amid all the atrocities

Posted By Sophie Jonathan on Thursday 1st Dec 2011

‘Just you think,’ wrote one British soldier, of the Christmas truce, ‘that while you were eating your turkey, etc., I was out talking and shaking hands with the very men I had been trying to kill a few hours before!!’

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