OH MY GOD, I'VE HAD ENOUGH-Y,/THEY'VE GIVEN A PRIZE TO CAROL DUFFY.

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This morning's Broadcasting House has given it's annual Cultural Figure of the Year award to our nation's poetess laureate, Ms Carol Ann Duffy (pictured below). Here's a sample of the great lady's work (all drawn from her third offering as Britain's Bard(ess), The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009):
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Two turtle doves
that Shakespeare loved -
turr turr, turr turr -
endangered now
by herbicide
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(That would have made a spotty teenager proud!)
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The first gold ring was gold indeed -
banker's profits fired in greed.
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And there's more...
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I bought a magic goose from a jolly farmer,
This goose laid Barack Obama.
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I bought a poisoned goose from a crook (sick, whiffing).
This foul goose laid Nick Griffin.
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She's a satirist to put Dryden or Pope to shame, isn't she? And, like them, she has the gift of the killer rhyming couplet, as in this coruscating attack on the corrupt, crony-packed, gerrymandered modern House of Lords:
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Lords don't leap.
They sleep.
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(That'll give Lords Snape and Taylor, & the noble Baroness Uddin a few sleepless nights!)
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There's plenty more where this came from, but finally here's Carol Ann on Copenhagen:
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On the twelfth day in Copenhagen
was global warming stopped in its tracks
by Brown and Barack and Hu Jintao?
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(Ted Hughes is surely looking down in awe! What profundity!)
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Ms Duffy's work in popular in schools and with this government and the BBC - and you can understand why. It's crap. And it's left-wing.
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