Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.
By Carol Ann Duffy
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Forthcoming Events
- James Salter at the Dublin Writers Festival
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- Robin Robertson at the Dublin Writers Festival
- James Salter at the Hay Festival
- Aleksander Hemon at the Hay Festival
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Poetry
Another Night Before Christmas, Armour, Ballistics, Banjo, Better Than God, Fiere, Furniture, Grain, Hide Now, Hill of Doors, Interior Night, Love Poems, Misadventure, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower, November, One Thousand Nights and Counting, Sidereal, The Bees, The Christmas Truce, The Cloud Corporation, The Dark Film, The Divine Comedy, The Floating Man, The Havocs, The Mirabelles, The Overhaul, The Picador Book of 40, The Picador Book of Love Poems, The Seacunny, The Wrecking Light, WenceslasPoets
Annie Freud, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Charlotte Greig, Clive James, Glyn Maxwell, Jackie Kay, John Glenday, John Kinsella, John Stammers, Katharine Towers, Kathleen Jamie, Lorraine Mariner, Paul Farley, Peter Forbes, Peter Porter, Rachael Boast, Richard Meier, Robin Robertson, Samantha Wynne- Rhydderch, Sean O'Brien, Timothy Donnelly, Various
The Christmas Truce
Carol Ann Duffy
A new tale celebrating the magic of Christmas from the Poet Laureate, illustrated by David Roberts
Down at the front, on a cold winter’s night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Belief was in the air. Then the soldiers ceased fire and the magic of Christmas took hold . . .
Carol Ann Duffy’s brilliant new poem celebrates the miraculous truce between the trenches, when enemy shook hands with enemy, shared songs, swapped gifts, even played football, and peace found a place in No Man’s Land.
