has lived in London since the 1970s and this comes from her collection "Call It Blue" (Rockingham Press, 2000).Unusually for a war poem, this is in the voice of a daughter to whom her soldier-father has become "a stranger".
from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner
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"The poems we like are the poems which will speak to us. That's why people will approach you when they have a bereavement, or a wedding is coming.
"The best poems are all about all of us and that happens as soon as you start to write. It becomes not you, but the human.
"That's why this children's book festival is so exciting, because it's getting children to relate to literature while they are so young and feel that it's for them and that it's part of their lives and that it's funny."
from Carol Ann Duffy: Daily Telegraph: Poetry 'in the ascendant' with young, claims Carol Ann Duffy
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