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Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has won this year’s CLPE Poetry Award, awarded annually to poets writing for children.
The Centre of Literacy in Primary Education, which runs the award, gave the prize to Duffy for her New and Collected Poems for Children, published by Faber. She beat the other shortlisted candidates James Carter and Graham Denton, Adrian Mitchell and Michael Rosen, who have all produced a children’s poetry collection within the last year.
Duffy’s collection, published in September 2009, was chosen by a judging panel that comprised fellow writers John Agard, Andrew Lambirth and Lindsay MacRae and the Chair of judge, Margaret Meek Spencer.
The Glasgow-born poet, who took up the Poet Laureate post in May, was given the award at a prizegiving held at the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education headquarters in London. She joins a list of winners that include Jackie Kay, Roger McGough, Fiona Waters, Grace Nichols and this year’s judge John Agard.