Duffy Critical Quotes

Question 1

Deryn Reez-Jones: “One of Duffy’s preoccupations was…

Answer 1

…the urge to name and the absence of words with which to name.”

Question 2

Elizabeth O’Reily: “She write in an every day…

Answer 2

…conversational language, making her poems appear deceptively simple.”

Question 3

Katherine Viner: “Her poems are accessible and…

Answer 3

…entertaining, yet her form is classical.”

Question 4

Duffy: “I retain some of the…

Answer 4

…motifs of all that and none of the feelings: faith; guilt; whatever.”

Question 5

Deryn Rees-Jones: “Shows the difficulties the…

Answer 5

patriarchy presents to both men and women.”

Question 6

Jody Allen Randolph: “Loneliness….

Answer 6

…haunts her verse.”

Question 7

Anthony Rowland: “Mean Time as a whole…

Answer 7

…seems to signal then end of a relationship.”

Question 8

Barbra Bleinman: “Duffy uses everyday idioms and…

Answer 8

…cliches that she subverts and voices of ordinary people.”

Question 9

Barbra Bleinman: “Duffy has a strongly subversive streak…

Answer 9

… she likes to shock and surprise and turn the worlds certainties on their head.”