The Carol Ann Duffy Guide
 
Online Sources
 
General Information 
The Knitting Circle - Carol Ann Duffy - includes a large number of press cuttings
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Education 
BBC Logo    very official and very good: BBC Education - Bitesize Revision - offers revision and tests for 5 poems:  Before You Were Mine, In Mrs Tilschers Class,  Stealing, Valentine, and War Photographer 
English Open Access - Carol Ann Duffy - 24 poems from Mean Time - 16 with detailed commentary
Grimm Tales - Basic Background Reading
 
 
Newspaper & Magazine Articles  
Sunday Times. " Distinct voices, still lives." September 25, 1994 (Book Review Selected Poems by Sean O'Brien). 
The Women's Review of Books. " Remembering Life before Thatcher." May 1995.
Carol Ann Duffy in Conversation with Erica Wagner  at WATERSTONE'S, Camden High Street, London NW1; 23rd March, 1999.
The Times. " Laureate favourite tells of lesbian love." March 28, 1999.
The Guardian. " Poet laureate hymns the rival who wasn't." September 25, 1999.
The Guardian. " Metre Maid." September 25, 1999.
New Leader. " The Power of Laughter." May/June 2000 (review: The World's Wife ).
Poetry Review. " The Larkin - Duffy line." Autumn 2000 (essay by Justin Quinn).
  
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