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Prof Carol Ann Duffy

Professor of Contemporary Poetry

Contact Details

Room: Geoffrey Manton Building (Room 219)
Telephone: 0161 247 6761

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 St Andrews
• 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

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