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“... Reading through Carol AnnDuffy’s unremarkable early pamphlet publications, one despairs of finding any sign of promise, any sign that this romantic and dreamy adolescent (‘Cast off your thighs/and irrigate the desert of my body’s europe’) would one day be hailed as our best British poet, the voice of a generation ...”

“... self-transforming nereid, could be the shape-shifting guiding presence behind these three books. Carol AnnDuffy and Jo Shapcott write poems about her, or more exactly through her, while transformation and metamorphosis, travel through time, space and states of being lie at the core of Gwyneth Lewis’s second ...”

“... and Janice Galloway’s Foreign Parts. It bridges writing as different as the poetry of Carol AnnDuffy, Kate Clanchy or David Kinloch, and the fiction of Christopher Whyte or A.L. Kennedy. Some of these poets and novelists are wary of each other. Jamie recently refused to read with Irvine Welsh because of ...”

“... Wade, Lang Leav, Nayyirah Waheed, Amanda Lovelace and Charly Cox (‘social media’s answer to Carol AnnDuffy’, the blurbs say of she must be mad). There are men too, including Atticus (not his real name), a mysterious masked Canadian and self-described lover of ‘the ocean, the desert, whiskey and playing with ...”

“... they are to men’s: Wendy Mulford excludes most ‘establishment’ women poets. No Fleur Adcock, Carol Rumens, Carol AnnDuffy and certainly no Fiona Pitt-Kethley or Wendy Cope – which means denying herself, out of petty literary in-fighting, poems that would have strengthened her ...”

“... in which canonical figures appear in Part One (including the working-class Scottish writer Carol AnnDuffy) and Part Two offers ‘Poems from Other Cultures and Traditions’ (including several coloured writers, but also, confusingly, the working-class Scot Tom Leonard). Seamus Heaney – who isn’t British and ...”

“... last year’s crop of Y2K anthologies. Marketing gimmicks do not do justice to the pleasures of Carol AnnDuffy’s Time’s Tidings: Poems for the Millennium, a reverse-alphabetical countdown of temporally-themed poems by past and present authors chosen through a proportional-representation formula too complex to be ...”

“... years, which she has served: the trial took place in 1970. Her name is given by Helena Kennedy as Carol Hanson. Almost nobody has heard of her and few could recognise her face. ‘Nonce’ means ‘nothing’; noncification turns someone into nothing. When I was young, my father, who was a great one for passing the time of day talking, fell into conversation ...”

“... can be revised, rather than ditched in a fit of righteousness. Commenting on lyrics by Plath, Carol AnnDuffy and Louise Glück as well as her own, Boland suggests that the ‘poignant place’ of dislocation inside the text can be reconfigured and remapped. This is something which she sees herself doing as ...”

“... Pitcairn or abandoned South American whaling station’. ‘The current Laureate,’ meaning Carol AnnDuffy, ‘invites us to celebrate an entire Twitter, as once she might have high-fived the Tatler.’ Or consider Coventry Cathedral: the original building was destroyed by Nazi bombs and left a symbolic ...”

“... primary importance to a fictitious, quintessentially modern writer; a stanza in a recent volume by Carol AnnDuffy makes good use of an albatross and a crossbow. The final lines of James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity leave its sympathetic narrator and his murderous female accomplice just about to dive, far out at ...”