Comments on: Carol Ann Duffy to be Poet Laureate

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0000

Brilliant news – she should have got it last time out.

Catherine, yes, her personal life (if you mean her sexual orientation) should be irrelevant, but since it isn’t, it’s as worth celebrating a queer Poet Laureate-elect as a woman, which surely should be equally irrelevant, but clearly isn’t.

By: Anji

Anji — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:48:50 +0000

I can’t believe this is the first I’ve heard of this. We studied Duffy at school and she was unanimously loved by the entire class. I’m so excited about this.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:51:59 +0000

Pleased to see a woman get it and she is certainly up to the job (much more so than Motion) and I think her personal life should be irrelevant, but I was cheering for Simon Armitage who I think is even better.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:37:17 +0000

Excellent! Yes, I’m a fan of BD too, so am always happy to send some business their way. Have you seen The Book Depository Live? Watching what other people are buying across the world is strangely hypnotising.

Enjoy the Morse too!

By: pierre l

pierre l — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:27:37 +0000

Thanks Kirsty. It is so much easier to buy the books from my favourite supplier (BD) when that’s the link that appears in the blog post (as opposed to A****n).
“Service of all the Dead” just flashed past in LibraryThing as I was writing this comment — we have just re-watched the Morse episode, so I think I’ll get the book.