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Carol Ann Duffy is Poet Laureate and Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan
University, where she is also Creative Director of the Writing School. Her poetry for both children and adults
has received many awards, most recently the Costa Poetry Award for The Bees (2011). She was awarded the
PEN Pinter Prize in 2012 and Ritual Lighting (Laureate Poems) was published in 2014. Her other work for theatre, published by Faber, includes Grimm Tales, Beasts and Beauties and Rats' Tales.