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About Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list.

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International Dance Day

The Good Child's Guide to Rock 'n' Roll by Carol Ann Duffy from Faber & Faber is a great dancing book!

6 days ago

International Children's Book Day

Underwater Farmyard (PB)... A book that will get anyone reading! By Carol Ann Duffy from Macmillan Children's Books.

1 month ago

International Children's Book Day

Underwater Farmyard... A book that will get anyone reading! By Carol Ann Duffy from Macmillan Children's Books.

1 month ago

International Children's Book Day

Queen Munch and Queen Nibble... A book that will get anyone reading! By Carol Ann Duffy from Two Hoots.

1 month ago

International Children's Book Day

A classic story to celebrate International Children's Book Day, Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy from Faber & Faber.

1 month ago

Wear a Hat Day

Hats, hats, hats...The Hat by Carol Ann Duffy from Faber & Faber

1 month ago

World Poetry Day

Get kids into poetry and other types of written verse! Try reading The Good Child's Guide to Rock 'n' Roll. By Carol Ann Duffy, published by Faber & Faber.

1 month ago

World Poetry Day

Get kids into poetry and other types of written verse! Try reading Moon Zoo. By Carol Ann Duffy, published by Macmillan Children's Books.

1 month ago

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