Carole Ann Duffy's Christmas Poem

Posted by scratch's blog on Sun, 21 Dec 2014

Thought members would like to read this from the Poet Lauriat:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/20/-sp-dorothy-wordsworths-christmas-birthday-carol-ann-duffy-a-christmas-poem

Comments

Submitted by VeraClark on

Thank you - love it!

 

Submitted by scratch on

It's a goodun.

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Being the laureate can't be easy, I'm guessing here. In 2009 she was commissioned to write a Christmas poem. She wrote her own '12 days of Christmas' and a lot of people hated it because they thought it was too angry. This poem is more what people would expect from the PL, being warmly likeable and accessibly literary.My favourite is Education for Leisure, her poem which was on the National Curriculum and then got banned.

Submitted by scratch on

Yes, that banning did make me laugh elsie.

 

Submitted by VeraClark on

I still really like 'Valentine.'

 

Submitted by scratch on

And esie's point about accessibility too.  I like this Christmas poem a lot but it doesn't have the stick-it-to-em qualities of Havisham.