Carol Ann Duffy is a bit of a cunt, isn’t she?
Who’s this yeasty-looking gorgon and why is she so miserable? Well, she’s Scottish and she’s stepping down as Britain’s Poet Laureate, i.e. she writes poetry for the Queen (the first wo-man to do so) after holding the position since 2009. Her poetry has tackled MPs’ expenses, LGBTQ issues, Christmas, even David Beckham. She has also worked as poetry critic for The Guardian.
Now, I know some of my cunter-colleagues don’t care for poetry but I like it. Let’s give the bisexual, catholic, Guardian-contributing Scottish poet a chance, shall we.
Duffy is also a playwright, and in 2017 wrote a Brexit play call My Country: a work in progress. In case you wondered where the sympathy lay, it was dedicated to Jo Cox. Hmm.
In her new collection, ‘Sincerity’, her last as laureate, she attacks some modern “problems”:
“With the evil twins of Trump and Brexit” she squawked courageously, “there was no way of not writing about that, it is just in the air”. The Brexit poem includes the words “arseholes”, “gatekeepers”, “chancers”, “tossers”, “bullshitters”, and “patriots” .
Sigh.
What a shame we hard-working plebs can’t do a difficult, authentic job like waxing twenty or so lines poetically, glugging free booze and quaffing venison pastries at poetry festivals, and earning a year’s salary for a fucking poetry competition. This hackneyed, holier-than-thou harridan only inspires me to put books DOWN. Why don’t you wipe the conscientious sweat from your priggish brow you carping, chronicling crone, stick your pencil up your ungrateful arse, and shit off.
Nominated by Captain Magnanimous