“There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning”

—  Carol Ann Duffy

Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005.

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British writer and professor of contemporary poetry 1955

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