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Has Carol Ann Duffy ever written from a male perspective?

I am trying to find a poet who writes largely or entirely from a female perspective (preferably a woman) to contrast a male poet who does the opposite. Would Carol Ann Duffy fit this?

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by College student2
I am trying to find a poet who writes largely or entirely from a female perspective (preferably a woman) to contrast a male poet who does the opposite. Would Carol Ann Duffy fit this?

hey! From the Carol Ann Duffy I've read (I did feminine gospels at a-level and read some work from other collections) she definitely writes largely from a female perspective. I've not read any poem of hers from a male perspective. I think that her collections Feminine Gospels and The world's Wife would work particularly well as they have a strong theme of giving women the voice that they were denied in literature for so much of history.

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by nikiiiiiii
hey! From the Carol Ann Duffy I've read (I did feminine gospels at a-level and read some work from other collections) she definitely writes largely from a female perspective. I've not read any poem of hers from a male perspective. I think that her collections Feminine Gospels and The world's Wife would work particularly well as they have a strong theme of giving women the voice that they were denied in literature for so much of history.

Thank you!

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