Education Critical Quotes- Duffy

Jeanette Winterson:

• 'powerful modern voice'

Simon Brittan:

• 'the most irritating and potentially misleading aspect of Duffy is her insistence of writing prose as though it were poetry.'

Poetry Foundation Biography:

• spoke in 'the voices of the urban disaffected people on the margins of society who harbour resentment and grudges against the world'

Elizabeth O'Reilly:

• 'both serious and humorous'