Carol Ann Duffy Poetry Critics

• Poetry Foundation 


  'Strong Feminist Edge'
• Adam O'Riordan


  'Examines love in many forms'
• British Council


  'She writes in everyday, conversational language'
• Deryn Rees-Jones


  Moves beyond 'a straightforward feminist poetry' and shows 'the difficulty that patriarchy presents to both men and women'
• Eavan Boland


  'Challenges and alters power relationships by making women both the subject and object of love poems'
• Deryn Rees-Jones


  'Distrust of language as a mediator between idea and object'
• Lavinia Greenlaw


  'Push language and form, their limits and tensions, to articulate that bankrupt and dislocated era'
• Elizabeth O'Reilly


  ''Explores the way in which meaning and reality are constructed through language'
• Elizabeth O'Reilly


  'Insight into such disturbed minds'
• Elizabeth O'Reilly


  'Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain'