Poetry

We are studying some of Carol Ann Duffy's poetry. These are the titles we are required to make our poetry selection from:

Dear Norman	Miles Away	Before you were mine
Model Village	Originally	Small Female Skull
Recognition	Poet for our Times	Moments of Grace
Selling Manhattan	Dream of a Lost Friend	Valentine
Correspondents	Litany	Mean Time
Warming her Pearls	The Captain of the 1964 ‘Top of the Form’ Team	Prayer

I am going to fling a variety of documents to do with her poetry up here. If any of you find anything that you think would be worth sharing with the rest of the group, please email it to me and I'll post it up here.

Ms L Sutherland (Email: lsutherland1a@gnes.net)

Here is a link to a You Tube Clip of the reading of 'Warming Her Pearls', one of the poems we will be looking at in some depth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_mpW5ThzM
And here is a link to the Poetry Archive with some readings of her work:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=11468
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The Poem 'Valentine':
The poem 'Warming Her Pearls':

The poem 'Before You Were Mine':
and an annotated version of the poem:

The poem 'Correspondents':
and an annotated version of the poem:

Litany - the poem - plus some notes:

A link to the BBC Bitesize site with some analysis on the poem 'Before You Were Mine': http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetduffy/beforeyouwererev1.shtml

Some notes on the poet:

An article from 'The Scotsman' newspaper referencing the poem 'Dear Norman':


Here's a site where you can participate in the creation of a global poem - if you feel so inclined:
http://litworld.org/poem