Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is currently in Derry to read from her works at two special events in the city.
Carol Ann Duffy
The acclaimed Scottish author was joined on stage earlier this afternoon by her long-time collaborator, actor and musician John Sampson, in the Waterside Theatre for a special reading from her much loved children’s work.
As a children’s author, Duffy has written several collections of poems and stories, which are enjoyed by parents and children alike, and is well known for her colourful renditions of her work on stage with Sampson
At 7.30pm this evening, the two will again perform together in St Cecilia’s College on Bligh’s Lane, delving further into her work, which deals with issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them so popular with readers.
Duffy’s vast array of award-winning works, includes Standing Female Nude (1985), Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, and her most recent collection, The Bees (2011).
The visit has been arranged as part of the city’s City of Culture celebrations.
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