Carol Ann Duffy unveils new World Cup poem
Poet laureate makes a footballer her narrator in The Shirt, a new piece timed to coincide with the World Cup 2010 final
Read The Shirt by the poet laureate, and other sporting poems
After her lament for David Beckham's ruptured achilles tendon this spring, Carol Ann Duffy could be said to have some sympathy for footballers, and her latest poem, The Shirt, written to coincide with the World Cup final on Sunday, only adds to that impression. Just as Shakespeare gives the most beautiful lines in The Tempest to Caliban, so Duffy makes her footballer, encountered at the bar after a disastrous match, a man of eloquence.
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Saturday, 10 July, 2010
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