The Christmas Truce’. Duffy, Carol Ann. http://noglory.org/index.php/multimedia/poetry-and-spoken-word/35-carol-ann-duffy-the-last-post-2

Day One - Mrs Scrooge: a sweet read about the effect one person can have on the world. All the global warming content was a bit sad for a Christmas poem, but it did make me feel all warm and cosy. Anthologise, which saw schools selecting their favourite poetry, the winning anthology published by Picador with a foreword by the Duchess of Cornwall; Her adult poetry collections are Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Other Country (1990); Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); The World's Wife (1999); Feminine Gospels (2002), a celebration of the female condition; Rapture (2005), winner of the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize; The Bees (2011), winner of the 2011 Costa Poetry Award and shortlisted for the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize; The Christmas Truce (2011), Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem (2012), illustrated by Stuart Kolakovic; Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday (2014) and Sincerity (2018). Her children's poems are collected in New & Collected Poems for Children (2009). In 2012, to mark the Diamond Jubilee, she compiled Jubilee Lines, 60 poems from 60 poets each covering one year of the Queen's reign. In the same year, she was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize. The poem goes on to describe the horror of war through its evocative imagery of the damage it inflicted on the soldiers: Editor and contributor) I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Anthology of Women's Poetry, illustrated by Trisha Rafferty, Viking (New York, NY), 1992, published as I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists, Holt (New York, NY), 1993.Beasts and Beauties: Eight Tales from Europe, first produced in Bristol, England, at the Bristol Old Vic,April 2004. Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University.

Carol Ann Duffy makes the use of German and English in her poem to show the likeness of coming together regardless of side. Not even language can distract us from the idea that we are essentially human. Even though both said poems are written much after the world war to the point where even the authors did not experience the war first hand, they keep this very eventful incident in memory. These incidents are never going to be forgotten that easily. They do not shy away from making a sincere attempt at trying to capture what the Christmas of 1914 felt like in some sort of post memory essence. Essentially these poems high light Christmas of 1914 as a reminder that we can always be better people. I present a series of evenings at our partner venue, the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, under the heading "Carol Ann Duffy and Friends". These evenings featuring guest appearances from poets of national stature reading alongside the best students and graduates from our MFA and MA Creative Writing: Poetry programme. This gives our students the experience of taking part in a professionally-staged literary event, and helps them to develop their skills in presenting their work to a public audience. In 2018I started the People's Poetry Lectures: today’s leading writers talking about their favourite poets at Manchester's iconic Principal Hotel.Football Remembers. Christmas Truce 1914. By DeFacto — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48650239 During World War I, on and Around Christmas Day 1914, the Sounds of Rifles Firing and Shells Exploding Faded in a Number of Plac A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Duffy is also the United Kingdom’s poet laureate, the first woman to be appointed the position in 400 years. She was seriously considered for the position in 1999. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s administration had wanted a poet laureate who exemplified the new “Cool Britannia,” not an establishment figure, and Duffy was certainly anything but establishment. She is the Scottish-born lesbian daughter of two Glasgow working-class radicals. Her female partner is also a poet and the two of them are raising a child together. Duffy has a strong following among young Britons, partially because her poetry collection Mean Timewas included in Britain’s A-level curriculum, but Blair was worried about how “middle England” would react to a lesbian poet laureate. There were also concerns in the administration about what Britain’s notorious tabloids would write about her sexuality, and about comments that Duffy had made urging an updated role for the poet laureate. In the end, Blair opted for the safe choice and named Andrew Motion to the post. Richard Schirrmann (founder of the German Youth Hostel Association) as, “Strewn with shattered trees, the ground ploughed up by shellfire, a wilderness of earth, tree-roots and tattered uniforms.” This was the area known as “No Man’s Land” which became temporarily transformed by soldiers who allowed themselves to “Make of a battleground, a football pitch.”

Day Six - Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday: a nice poem but the star of the show of this one is the illustrations!!! I want them framed. Day Nine - Pablo Picasso's Noel: I just didn't get this one. It's about Picasso spending Christmas eve in a small French town, but did not feel at all Christmassy. The illustrations were gorgeous though! Little Women, Big Boys (one-act), first produced in London, England, at Almeida Theatre, August 8, 1986. Poetry Together, a competition for the best poems written by collaboratively by people from different generations, designed to encourage intergenerational conversations and working with the Co-Op's campaign to combat loneliness in communitites;Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8885 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000598 Openlibrary_edition Take My Husband (two-act), first produced in Liverpool, England, at Liverpool Playhouse, December 4, 1982. This is Duffy at her most serious - the poems are rich, beautiful and heart-rending in their exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain. These works are also her most formal - following in the tradition of Shakespeare and John Donne, Duffy’s contemporary love poems in this collection draw on the traditional sonnet and ballad forms. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February, 1994, Betsy Hearne, review of I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists, pp. 184-185; September, 1996, Betsy Hearne, review of Stopping for Death: Poems of Death and Loss, pp. 9-10. Editor) Stopping for Death: Poems of Death and Loss, illustrated by Trisha Rafferty, Holt (New York, NY), 1996.