Carol Ann Duffy’s Faery Tales, a heady mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar, is a new collection of rebooted fairy stories packed tightly into 350 pages. No other writer can retell a story ...

It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

Originally This autobiographical poem sees Duffy considering and exploring the sense of isolation and confusion felt when she moved as a child from Scotland to England. This poem addresses the ...

A new version by Carol Ann Duffy Director: Rufus Norris Designer: Ian MacNeil Dostume designer: Nicky Gillibrand Lighting designer: Paul Anderson Production Photographer: Richard Hubert Smith ...

a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. We received hundreds of entries, which our panel of judges - headed by composer Bob Chilcott - whittled down to a final shortlist of six. These carols were ...

Extended metaphors are metaphors that run throughout a piece of work. For example, in the poem Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy, the speaker says 'I give you an onion.' The onion is a metaphor for the ...

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To the reader, it suggests something that sounds soothing and tastes sweet. The poem Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy describes a bride who has been abandoned on her wedding day. Still wearing her ...

Originally This autobiographical poem sees Duffy considering and exploring the sense of isolation and confusion felt when as a child her parents moved from the Gorbals in Glasgow to England.