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by Carol Ann Duffy First published January 1st 2007. The Tear Thief (Hardcover). Published September 1st 2007 by Barefoot Books.

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Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright

Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime, the Tear Thief. Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position. Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright.

Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE FRSL HonFBA HonFRSE (born 23 December 1955) is a British poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first woman, the first Scottish-born poet, and the first LGBT poet to hold the position.

SIGNED Bookplate by Carol Ann Duffy. Place of Publication. Carol Ann Duffy is an acclaimed poet and playwright, who has also written many picture books. Changing perspectives in the full-page images makes each spread a surprise. Read full description. Her book of children's poetry, Meeting Midnight(9780571201204) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, 2000 and her latest collection of poetry, Rapture (9780330433914), was the winner of the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize. Carol Ann lives in Manchester with her daughter, Ella. This is her first project with Barefoot Books.

Carol Ann Duffy is an award-winning Scottish poet who, according to. .The Tears Thief, Barefoot Books (Cambridge, MA), 2007.

Carol Ann Duffy is an award-winning Scottish poet who, according to Danette DiMarco in Mosaic, is the poet of post-post war England: Thatcher’s England. Duffy is best known for writing love poems that often take the form of monologues. Jeffrey Brown sat down with UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and US Poet Laureate Philip Levine to reflect on their public roles as private poets. The Lost Happy Endings, Bloomsbury Children’s Books (London, England), 2008. The Princess Blankets, Templar (London, England), 2009.

2007) A Picture Book by Carol Ann Duffy. Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime, the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack as she steals the tears of every child who cries.

Carol Ann Duffy has published four highly praised collections of poetry. This book is the running definition of ‘female gaze’ in literature

Carol Ann Duffy has published four highly praised collections of poetry. Her last, Mean Time, won the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. She lives in Manchester, England. This book is the running definition of ‘female gaze’ in literature. Duffy takes stories like the raising of Lazarus, or the fall of Icarus, or even Shakespeare’s bestowment of his ‘second best bed’ to his wife, and retells them from a female perspective. In other poems, she transforms male-oriented stories to female: Pope Joan and Queen Kong being examples.

In 2009–19 she served as the first woman poet laureate of Great Britain. Duffy grew up attending convent schools and began publishing her poetry in magazines at age 14. She later attended Liverpool University. After graduating with a degree in philosophy in 1977, Duffy set to work publishing several books and traveling to read and teach her poetry.

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