Selling Manhattan

The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection range from the dramatic monologues for which she is noted to love poems, which she writes, Robert Nye remarked, as if she were the first to do so'. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time. On May 1, 2009 she was named the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

Poeziile din a doua colectie foarte laudata ale lui Carol Ann Duffy variaza de la monologurile dramatice pentru care este remarcata ca poezii de dragoste, pe care le scrie, a remarcat Robert Nye, ca si cand ar fi fost prima care a facut acest lucru '. Carol Ann Duffy s-a nascut la Glasgow in 1955. Printre premiile sale se numara premiul I in Concursul National de Poezie din 1983; trei Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham si Dylan Thomas Awards in Marea Britanie si un Lannan Literary Award 1995 in SUA.