Jersey Festival of Words
Tickets: £15
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. Carol Ann Duffy received a Damehood in the 2015 New Year’s Honours.
In an entertaining evening of multi-instrumental woodwind and brass, jazz and classical cabaret, hear her read extracts from The World’s Wife, The Bees and Ritual Lighting accompanied by musician, composer and actor John Sampson.