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Book Festival Review:Carol Ann Duffy
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CAROL ANN DUFFY
WHEN Carol Ann Duffy, right, arrived to give the inaugural reading
of this year's Book Festival, she brought along a dose of infectious
laughter. Her long poem, The Laughter of Stafford Girls High,
describes how hilarity breaks out like a disease in a girls' high
school, spreading from classroom to classroom until it can no longer
be contained. As she read, the laughter rippled out from the page
across the packed Speigeltent, a snigger, a titter, a chuckle, a
snort. Her...
