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kemperboyd
05/01/09

In reply to Poetry In Motion
No!. I have to tell you as someone forced to study Duffy at GCSE like alot of British kids, I despise her work. My friends went so far as to heckle her at a festival. Her work is turgid shite. This is obviously just my opinion but after we had the brilliant Andrew Motion we are stuck with Onion-er Carole Ann Duffy. I am livid.
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emilyanne
05/01/09

@kemperboyd: ha interesting, I hate Motion I don't think he's brilliant at all, I find him turgid and one note and dull as ditchwater (i'm not a massive fan of Duffy either mind you). I will admit that my Motion dislike is also fuelled by a brilliant but sadly libellous story I know about him.
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Pocahaunted
05/01/09

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SQUEEEEEE!!! She is one of my favorite contemporary poets! This is amazing news, she is such a strong woman and role model.

Anyone who has not read the poems in The World's Wife, please buy it now, I promise you will not be disappointed.
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Mary McCarthyite
05/01/09

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I love that picture of her; it looks like a portrait made during the Renaissance. Gorgeous!
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AuntieBee
05/01/09

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I love that the job of poet laureate still exists, despite it's being a kind of anachronism.

Also, Carol Ann Duffy has written some pretty great stuff.

Not a red rose or a satin heart.

I give you an onion.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

It promises light

like the careful undressing of love.

Here.

It will blind you with tears

like a lover.

It will make your reflection

a wobbling photo of grief.

I am trying to be truthful.

-from Valentine
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/01/09

@AuntieBee: I really like that poem. However, it initially made me think of Shrek. damnit.
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nessalicious
05/01/09

@AuntieBee: I studied this for GCSE so I reserve a special kind of hatred for this poem in my heart.
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kemperboyd
05/01/09

@nessalicious: WORD
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nessalicious
05/01/09

@kemperboyd: I am hearting you just for that.

@BlueJeans: I really did read other works, but I just felt so underwhelmed by them. They were very much not my thing. But well done on her etc etc.
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brinkswomanship
05/01/09

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There once was a woman called Duffy

Who made all the gentlemen huffy

When laureate named

She proudly proclaimed

"Even though I have a muff, wheee!"
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BabyJane
05/01/09

@brinkswomanship: Ha! Well done.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/01/09

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well done! This makes me happy on such a rainy icky day.
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hovy
05/01/09

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She's also Britain's first openly gay poet laureate. Win-win.
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bowleserised
05/01/09

@hovy: And more opinionated than the horror, Motion.

[www.guardian.co.uk]
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Jello Mix
05/01/09

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Congratulations, Duffy! I'm forwarding this to my mother for her to mention in her English classes. Hopefully it will inspire her students to look for the poetry in their own lives.
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DrWorm
05/01/09

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Caroll Ann Duffy

a name with 5 sylllables

you little haiku
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Mary McCarthyite
05/01/09

@dancingwithpants: FTW!
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sympathyforthebasementcat
05/01/09

@dancingwithpants:

There once was poet named Duffy

Like Wordsworth, but somewhat less fluffy

She wrote lots of poems

And beat out les hommes

I bet you ted hughes would be huffy!
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brinkswomanship
05/01/09

@sympathyforthedevil: LOL! Great minds.
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sympathyforthebasementcat
05/01/09

@brinkswomanship: Ha. Who can resist a chance to write a limerick?
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confusedforahotsecond is a sodemombeech!
05/01/09

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PROPS!
Yay to poetry! Yesterday was Poem In Your Pocket Day.
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AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
05/01/09

@confusedforahotsecond is hoping a kind benefactor sends tic...: I have no idea what that means, but I always have poems tucked in my wallet - mostly W.H. Auden. Does that count?
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brinkswomanship
05/01/09

@AtomiClash is a ball-cutting cybersuccubus: Ohh I love "The More Loving One".
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PhillyLass
12/04/08

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"A great poet needs to leave open the door between the conscious and unconscious; Sarah Palin has removed her door from its hinges."

What a fancypants way of calling someone an idiot. I think I need to memorize this line and trot it out at parties when someone says something really stupid and offensive.
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Ms. Crankypants
12/03/08

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Comparing Sarah Palin to William Blake is beyond comprehension. Blake's poetry had actual content. Palin was like a pull-string doll with prerecorded phrases.
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sybann
12/03/08

@Ms. Crankypants: you are being far too nice.
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UnSeelie...I am baaack!
12/03/08

In reply to Poetry In Motion
'Oh the agony'

I read this post and

The agony in my heart

Knows no bounds.

The agony is like

the endless abyss of space

almost like the abyss

that is Sarah Palins brain.

Oh the agony!

Where is my Purple Heart? I think my "poem" qualifies me for some award, why not a Purple Heart. Yes, I know there is no association between a poem and a Purple Heart but neither is there one for Sarah Palin and Poet Laureate. *headdesk*
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Hooplehead
12/03/08

In reply to Poetry In Motion
I may be one of them there librul elitist fake Americans, but I was under the impression that being a poet, much less a poet laureate, required:

1) education

2) reading

3) a way with the English language that does not make people want to cry.

So this idea, and all the people involved, are one big epic fail.

Also, stupid does not=innocent. Just saying.
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badmutha
12/03/08

In reply to Poetry In Motion
"Sarah Palin has removed her door from its hinges."

When I think unhinged, I think Sarah Palin.
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