“In a cul-de-sac, a strange boy threw a stone.
I crawled through a hedge into long grass
at the edge of a small wood, lonely and thrilled.
The green silence gulped once and swallowed me whole.”
Carol Ann Duffy (1977)
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Carol Ann Duffy is an acclaimed Scottish poet and playwright renowned for accessible, dramatic monologues exploring love, gender, identity, loss, and everyday spirituality.
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Beloved lesbionic Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy was BOTD in 1945, turning 80 today. #carolannduffy # bornonthisday #supergays #poetlaureate
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This week, we deep-dive into Duffy’s sonnet #AnneHathaway in the latest of our subscriber-series on the sonnet! To access this conversation, subscribe to #SecretLifeOfBooks on Apple Podcasts or Patreon .
#Shakespeare famously left his wife, Anne Hathaway, his second best bed. This specific line in his will is also used the opening line of a #CarolAnnDuffy poem: ‘Anne Hathaway'... which we're talking about on this weeks subscriber-exclusive series on the sonnet.
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Today's Lines at Lunchtime is 'Another Night Before Christmas' by Carol Ann Duffy!
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Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
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Words, Wide Night by Carol Ann Duffy
State/Banquet Carol Ann Duffy A new poem by the former poet laureate to mark Trump's state visit How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service, among the rocks and the rubble, laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table, six crystal glasses per setting. It took eight servants three weeks to polish - silver coated in a thin layer of gold - even the concrete dust in the air seems glamourised and the ruins are decked in the uplifting flags of democracy. To start, fillet of Dover sole filled with salmon mousse, served on a bed of leeks with white wine sauce. Poached Sandringham venison with truffles to follow, then Key Lime Pie, and among the wines, Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, 1990. Yum-yum. Let the trumpets sound on the bombsite as the great and the good pick their way through, and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
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#CarolAnnDuffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about #Trump’s #UKstatevisit:
"Yum-yum. Let the trumpets sound on the bombsite
as the great and the good pick their way through,
and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
She speaks clearly for us, #CarolAnnDuffy
#CarolAnnDuffy writes ‘bombsite’ #poem about #Trump ’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war
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Words, Wide Night by Carol Ann Duffy Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
Carol Ann Duffy - Words, Wide Night.
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Jessica Curry, Carol Ann Duffy, London Voices & Ben Parry:
🎵 Kiss the Bairns
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Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift. Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth enters our hearts, that small familiar pain; then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth in the distant Latin chanting of a train. Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales console the lodger looking out across a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls a child's name as though they named their loss. Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer — Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.
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Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy
#BookWormSat - powerful, potent crafted words from #CarolAnnDuffy - thanks @21rosa.bsky.social for sharing!
Let me be clear. When I think of great poets, I love #EmilyDickenson #CarolAnnDuffy #DylanThomas #HughMacdiarmid #LordByron and #Shakespeare. However, I also consider #Tupac #IceCube, #EasyE #Haystack and #Eminem to be just as great.
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Kathryn Williams & Carol Ann Duffy:
🎵 Snow Angel
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Kathryn Williams & Carol Ann Duffy:
🎵 Snow Angel
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Thought for the day from #CarolAnnDuffy .. “And we’re all owed joy sooner or later
The trick’s to remember when it was
Or to see it coming”
