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    kemperboyd: 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 he... more »
    Pocahaunted: 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 th... more »
    Mary McCarthyite: I love that picture of her; it looks like a portrait made during the Renaissance. Gorgeous! more »
    AuntieBee: 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... more »
    brinkswomanship: 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!" more »
    AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope: well done! This makes me happy on such a rainy icky day. more »
    hovy: She's also Britain's first openly gay poet laureate. Win-win. more »
    Jello Mix: 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... more »
    DrWorm: Caroll Ann Duffy a name with 5 sylllables you little haiku more »
    confusedforahotsecond is a sodemombeech!: PROPS!Yay to poetry! Yesterday was Poem In Your Pocket Day. more »
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    Poetry In Motion

    Carol Ann Duffy has been named Britain's poet laureate. Duffy, the first woman to hold the post in its 341-year history, is known for a wide and varied body of modern poetry. [NYT]