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Friday, December 25, 2015

Friday Poem

Poetry
Art and Environment
Edward Hessler

Carol Ann Duffy at Humber Mouth 2009 (3646825708)
By walnut whippet from Hull, UK
 [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],
via Wikimedia Commons


Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy was the first woman to be appointed Poet Laureate of Britain in 2009.  It took a mere 400 years for this to happen.  She is a professor of poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Her poem The Bee Carol is from the first book of poems published after she became poet laureate. A review of this book, The Bees may be found here.

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