{"id":480,"date":"2015-02-22T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2016-02-14T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T23:24:34","slug":"carol-ann-duffy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/carol-ann-duffy\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Ann Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate of Great Britain and one of Britain\u2019s best-known and most celebrated poets. She won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection of linked love poems, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Rapture<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">,and her other collections include <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Standing Female Nude<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">, winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Selling Manhattan<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Mean Time<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her most recent book, <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">The Bees<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">, was awarded Britain\u2019s prestigious Costa Award for Poetry. <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">The Bees<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"> and <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Rapture<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\"> were released in the US in 2013. Also a playwright, Duffy\u2019s plays include <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Take My Husband, Cavern of Dreams, Little Women, Big Boys, Loss<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">, and <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Casanova<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">, and they have been performed at the Liverpool Playhouse and the Almeida Theatre in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>To inquire about purchasing a reading series broadside, please contact <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/marbl.library.emory.edu\/about\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\"><b>the Rose Library<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><b>Click <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/broadsides\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><b> to view the full gallery of reading series broadsides.<\/b><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate of Great Britain and one of Britain\u2019s best-known and most celebrated poets. She won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection of linked love poems, Rapture,and her other collections include Standing Female Nude, winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award, Selling Manhattan, which won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1053,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}