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Publication details of Poet for our Times: |
Published in the volume The Other Country in 1990 |
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Other literary works include: |
The World's wife (1999) |
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Born: |
In Glasgow in 1965. |
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Early years: |
Her mother, Mary Black was Irish, and her father was a long-serving councillor in Stafford, and an active shop steward at GEC. |
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Schooling: |
She attended St Joseph's convent school, Stafford, and Stafford High School for girls. In 1977 she graduated from Liverpool University with an honour degree in philosophy. |
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Career: |
After graduating Duffy worked for Granada Television. Also, she has been poetry editor of AMBIT since 1983, and she reviews new verse for the Guardian newspaper, and presents it on BBC Radio 4. She was recently one of the main contenders for the position of poet laureate, which had been vacated by the death of Ted Hughes. She is a previous winner of the Whitbread prize awarded for her collection of poetry, Mean Time. Duffy currently lectures in the Writing School, part of the Department of English at Manchaster Metropolitan University. |
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