It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
Carol Ann DuffyI see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
Carol Ann DuffyI write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Carol Ann DuffyAuden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Carol Ann Duffy