Everyman (Faber Drama)

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Duffy's poems are studied in British schools at ISC, GCSE, National 5, A-level, and higher levels. [35] [36] In August 2008, her "Education for Leisure," a poem about violence, was removed from the GCSE AQA Anthology, following a complaint about its references to knife crime and a goldfish being flushed down a toilet. The poem begins: "Today I am going to kill something. Anything./I have had enough of being ignored and today/I am going to play God." The protagonist kills a fly, then a goldfish. The budgie panics and the cat hides. It ends with him, or her, or them, leaving the house with a knife. "The pavements glitter suddenly. I touch your arm." [37]

In 2011 Duffy, spearheaded a new poetry competition for schools, named Anthologise. The competition is administered by the Poetry Book Society and was launched by the Duchess of Cornwall in September 2011. School students aged 11–18 from around the UK were invited to create and submit their own anthologies of published poetry. The 2011 Anthologise judges were Duffy; Gillian Clarke (National Poet for Wales); John Agard; Grace Nichols and Cambridge Professor of Children's Poetry, Morag Styles. The first ever winners of Anthologise were the sixth form pupils of Monkton Combe School, Bath, with their anthology titled The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead, which was described by Duffy as "assured and accomplished as any anthology currently on the bookshelves." [41] Plays and songs [ edit ] College Notices – Cambridge University Reporter 6160". University of Cambridge. 7 October 2009 . Retrieved 11 April 2012.

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Winterson, Jeanette. "About | Carol Ann Duffy". JeanetteWinterson.com. Archived from the original on 31 May 2013 . Retrieved 18 December 2009. British Academy Fellowship reaches 1,000 as 42 new UK Fellows are welcomed". British Academy. 16 July 2015. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018.

Radio play Rapture, performed by Fiona Shaw, with Eliana Tomkins, on BBC Radio Four on 24 July 2007. Lyall, Sarah (2 May 2009). "After 341 Years, British Poet Laureate Is a Woman". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 May 2011. She also writes picture books for children, and these include Underwater Farmyard (2002); Doris the Giant (2004); Moon Zoo (2005); The Tear Thief (2007); and The Princess's Blankets (2009). Everyman holds an awkward mirror up to humankind and asks whether it is only in death that we understand our lives… Politics by Carol Ann Duffy". The Guardian. 13 June 2009. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012.Javier De Frutos choreographs proceedings in lively ways and there is exceptional lighting from Paul Anderson.