Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, Britain's poet laureate first openly Lesbian person to hold the position

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Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009 the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly Lesbian person to hold the position Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; 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. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools

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