Duffy Critical Quotations

Michael Woods

Duffy’s poems explore how time is inevitably cruel and takes things away from us

Jody Allen-Randolph

Duffy shares Larkin’s tragic view of life

Duffy

In each poem, I’m trying to reveal a truth, so it can’t have a fictional beginning

Jody Allen-Randolf (2)

Failure, loneliness, isolation, and emptiness haunt her verse

Adam O’Riordan

Examines love in many forms

Elizabeth O’Riley

Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain

Lewison

Memories return to linger over moments of transient happiness

Duffy

I’m not dealing with facts I’m dealing with emotions

David Kennedy

Her work is an interrogation of contemporary culture

Eavan Boland

Duffy takes Larkin’s tone and inscribes it on the life of a contemporary woman