Carol Ann Duffy at Newcastle Fringe

‘Earth Prayers’
"Full marks... for reminding us of the ongoing climate crisis and the power of the arts, and particularly poetry, to explore the relationship between the anthropogenic and the natural world"

https://northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/performance/carol-ann-duffy-at-the-old-coal-yard-earth-prayers/

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Today's poem:

Medusa
- by Carol Ann Duffy

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/788847147230658560/medusa?source=share

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Today's poem:

Medusa
- by Carol Ann Duffy

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/778977213873815552/medusa?source=share

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Warming Her Pearls Poem by Carol Ann Duffy

'Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
bids me wear them, warm them, until evening
when I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them
round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her'

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warming-her-pearls/

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By walnut whippet from Hull, UK - Original text : Carol Ann Duffy at Humber Mouth 2009Uploaded by Magnus Manske), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10712082

During literacy form time, our students read The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy. This poem commemorates the soldiers in the German and British trenches in World War 1, who declared a momentary truce for Christmas 1914. It highlights what unites the soldiers, rather than what divides them.

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Today's poem:

The Lancashire Witches
- by Carol Ann Duffy

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/769193760995328000/the-lancashire-witches?source=share

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Today's poem:

The Ship
- by Carol Ann Duffy

In the end,
it was nothing more
than the toy boat of a boy
on the local park’s lake,
where I walked with you.

But I knelt down
to watch it arrive,
its white sail shy
with amber light,
the late sun
bronzing the wave
that lifted it up,

my ship coming in
with its cargo of joy.

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"The Woman in the Moon by Carol Ann Duffy

Darlings, I write to you from the moon where I hide behind famous light. How could you think it ever a man up here? A cow jumped over. The dish ran away with

the spoon. What reached me were your joys, griefs, here's-the-craic, losses, longings, your lives brief, mine long, a talented loneliness. I must have a thousand names for the earth, my blue vocation.

Round I go, the moon a diet of light, sliver of pear, wedge of lemon, slice of melon, half an orange, silver onion; your human sound falling through space, childbirth's song, the lover's song, the song of death.

Devoted as words to things, I gaze, gawp, glare; deserts where forests were, sick seas. When night comes, I see you gaping back as though you hear my Darlings, what have you done, what have you done to the world?"

-- "The Bees", page 49

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