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Carol Ann Duffy

Poet Laureate before Armitage. War Photographer came from a friend who took the pictures.

Percy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam BlakeWilliam WordsworthRobert BrowningAlfred, Lord TennysonWilfred OwenSeamus HeaneyTed HughesSimon ArmitageJane WeirCarol Ann DuffyImtiaz DharkerCarol RumensJohn AgardBeatrice Garland

The quotes

3 quotes by or about Carol Ann Duffy, in the order they happen.

A hundred agonies in black and white

Duffy · War Photographer · conflict · memory

A hundred photos of pain. The editor will pick five or six.

spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Duffy · War Photographer · conflict · memory

The film rolls in his darkroom. Suffering, filed neatly.

they do not care

Duffy · War Photographer · conflict

The readers look at his photos over breakfast and forget. The last words of the poem.

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