Born in Glasgow in 1955, Duffy was brought up in Staffordshire and studied philosophy at the University of Liverpool, where she was active in the city's underground poetry scene in the 1970s. read more
Hour Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour, bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch. read more
About Carol Ann Duffy Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and the poet laureate. She is the first female and openly gay person to hold this distinction in the four hundred years that it has existed. read more
Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour, bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch. read more