"As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets."

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Source : "Winning Lines". Interview with Peter Forbes, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2002.

Carol Ann Duffy

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