Article on Duffy's Intertextuality in Rapture

An excellent essay on Duffy's use of intertextuality and allusion with a focus on 'The Love Poem' and reference to various others from Rapture including 'Syntax' and 'Over'.

Baring Skills, Not Soul: Carol Ann Duffy’s Intertextual Games

Some reviews of Rapture

A Review from The Observer by Kate Kellaway from 2005.

An interview with Jeanette Winterson.

Duffy interviewed by the BBC in 1989 talking about 'her role as a feminist poet'.

Sunday Times article on Duffy

Click here to go to a Sunday Times article on Carol Ann Duffy from Feb 2010 bu Cathy Galvin.

And another Times online article by Daisy Goodwin on the new poet laureate: 'The Original Good Line Girl.'