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Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993 In her fourth collection, Mean Time, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire. "Mean Time is full of surprising journeys and enthralling slippages of time, to which the reader willingly submits as Duffy handles with a light, deft touch the major themes of betrayal, desire, loss and growing up." Julia Copus Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time. The anthologies she has edited include Anvil New Poets 2 and two for teenagers, I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine and Stopping for Death. Her Selected Poems is published by Penguin; her most recent collections, The World's Wife and Feminine Gospels, are published by Picador. She became Poet Laureate in May 2009.
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