Carol Ann Duffy

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there’s…

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems…

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true…

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by…

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience…

I grew up in a bookless house – my parents didn’t read poetry, so if I…

It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more…

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people…

Poetry and prayer are very similar…

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only…

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on…