CAROL ANN DUFFY
May 2013
Judi Dench's embattled M in Skyfall at one point reaches not for a Beretta or one of Q's exploding pens but a few lines of Tennyson. Would the words of Carol Ann Duffy work as well?
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January/February 2012
Review of new poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Derwent May, W.G. Sebald and Tomas Tranströmer
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May 2010
The Poet Laureate's verses aren't bad, but have more in common with tabloid headlines than the works of her great predecessors
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Carol Ann Duffy
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