Carol Anne Duffy

Life
1955- ; b. Glasgow Gorbals; of Irish family on both sides - her mother Mary (nee) Black being of irish parents and her father Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter, being the grandson of Irish migrants to Scotland; moved in with Adrian Henri at 16 and stayed until 1987; studied Philosophy at Univ of Liverpool, where he taughtç won National Poetry Compentition in 1983; issued various collections dealing with appt. poet laureate [UK], May 2009 - have previously refused it at the death of Ted Hughes; noted as first woman and first lesbian in the post; resigned in 2019; Selected Poems (Penguin 1995), 151pp.; ed., Anvil New Poets 2 (Anvil 1995), 166pp.; The Salmon Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems (Salmon 1996).