Responsibilities

Creative Director, The Writing School
Teaching Areas: Creative Writing - Poetry

Background

Qualifications:
BA University of Liverpool

Brief Professional Biography:

Professional Poet
Poet Laureate (2009 - present)

Honorary Doctorates:
• University of Dundee
• University of Hull
• University of Warwick

Awards:
• T. S. Eliot Prize (for Rapture), 2005
• CBE, 2001
• Signal Poetry Award (for Stopping for Death), 1997
• OBE, 1995
• Lannan Literary Award (Poetry), 1995
• Whitbread Poetry Award (for Mean Time), 1993
• Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for Mean Time), 1993
• Forward Poetry Prize: Best Poetry Collection of the Year (for Mean Time), 1993
• Cholmondeley Award, 1993
• Scottish Arts Council Book Award (for The Other Country), 1990
• Dylan Thomas Award, 1989
• Somerset Maugham Award (for Selling Manhattan), 1988
• Eric Gregory Award, 1984
• National Poetry Competition (for ‘Whoever She Was’), 1986
• C. Day Lewis Fellowship, 1982

Positions:
• Poet Laureate (2009 - present)
• Ambit: Poetry Editor
• Arts Council Awards: Judge
• Manchester Poetry Prize: Head Judge
• Society of Authors: Panel Member
• Poetry Society: Vice President

Links:
• www.sheerpoetry.co.uk

Publications

• The Lost Happy Endings (Bloomsbury, 2008)
• The Princess Blankets (Templar, 2008)
• Answering Back (Picador, 2007)
• The Hat (Faber, 2007)
• The Tear Thief (Barefoot Books, 2007)
• The Lost Happy Endings (Penguin, 2006)
• Another Night Before Christmas (John Murray, 2005)
• Moon Zoo (Macmillan, 2005)
• Rapture (Picador, 2005)
• New Selected Poems (Picador, 2004)
• Out of Fashion: An Anthology of Poems [ed.] (Faber and Faber, 2004)
• Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems [ed.] (Macmillan, 2004)
• Collected Grimm Tales (Faber and Faber, 2003)
• The Good Child's Guide to Rock and Roll (Faber and Faber, 2003)
• The Stolen Childhood (Puffin, 2003)
• Feminine Gospels (Picador, 2002)
• Queen Munch and Queen Nibble [illustrated by Lydia Monks] (Macmillan, 2002)
• Hand in Hand [ed.] (Picador, 2001) • The Oldest Girl in the World (Faber and Faber, 2000)
• Time's Tidings: Greeting the 21st Century [ed.] (Anvil, 1999)
• The World’s Wife (Picador, 1999)
• Meeting Midnight (Faber and Faber, 1999)
• The Pamphlet (Anvil, 1998).
• More Grimm Tales (Faber and Faber, 1997)
• Grimm Tales (Faber and Faber, 1996)
• Salmon Selected Poems (Salmon, 1996)
• Stopping for Death [ed.] (Viking, 1996)
• Mean Time (Anvil, 1993) • I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine [ed.] (Viking, 1992)
• William and the Ex-Prime Minister (Anvil, 1992)
• Selected Poems (Penguin, 1992)
• The Other Country (Anvil, 1990)
• Selling Manhattan (Anvil, 1987)
• Thrown Voices (Turret Books, 1986)
• Standing Female Nude (Anvil, 1985)
• Fifth Last Song (Headland, 1982)
• Fleshweathercock and Other Poems (Outposts, 1974)

Carol Ann Duffy's stage play, Casanova, was produced at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 2007. Her previous plays include Loss (1986), Little Women, Big Boys (1986), Cavern of Dreams (1984) and Take My Husband (1982). Her English translation of The Magic Flute was revived by Opera North in a touring production in 2007.

The Manchester Carols, a collaboration with the composer Sasha Johnson Manning, was performed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2007 and 2008, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

In 2007 her poem 'Leda' was commissioned by Barbican Education for the exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, at the Barbican Art Gallery in London.

Carol Ann is currently editing an anthology of poems about the moon (from Sappho to Alice Oswald), which will be published to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.