Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy DBE is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position. She was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in 2009 for a fixed ten-year term. Among her most notable collections of poetry are Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize.