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She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Carol Ann Duffy
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: December 23
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
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I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
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The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales
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