Carol Ann Duffy is Poet Laureate and Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan
University, where she is also Creative Director of the Writing School. Her poetry for both children and adults
has received many awards, most recently the Costa Poetry Award for The Bees (2011). She was awarded the
PEN Pinter Prize in 2012 and Ritual Lighting (Laureate Poems) was published in 2014. Her other work for theatre, published by Faber, includes Grimm Tales, Beasts and Beauties and Rats' Tales.
Mean Time.
The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while
Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are
New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and
The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her
Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.
