For 341 years, the poets laureate of Britain have all been male. That just changed with the appointment of Britain’s new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Her work has been described as “dealing with the darkest turmoil and the lightest minutiae of...
Grant reads another poem by Carol Ann Duffy, “Valentine.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Valentine Poem” Well, here’s a poem I like by Carol Ann Duffy. It’s called Valentine, and as we said earlier, Carol Ann Duffy is the poet...