Editing Carol Ann Duffy (section)

==Early life==
Carol Ann Duffy was born into a Roman Catholic family in the [[Gorbals]],<ref name=scottishpoetrylibrary>{{cite web | url = http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/carol-ann-duffy | title=Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)| publisher = [[Scottish Poetry Library]] | access-date= 26 March 2015}}</ref> considered a poor part of [[Glasgow]]. She was the daughter of Mary (née Black) and Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter.<ref name=Forbes/> Her mother's parents were Irish, and her father had Irish grandparents.<ref name=scottishpoetrylibrary/> The eldest of five siblings, she has four brothers: Frank, Adrian, Eugene and Tim. The family moved to [[Stafford]], England, when Duffy was six years old. Her father worked for [[English Electric]]. A trade unionist, he stood unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in 1983 in addition to managing [[Stafford Town F.C.|Stafford Football Club]].<ref name=Forbes/>

Duffy was educated in Stafford at Saint Austin's RC Primary School (1962–1967), St. Joseph's Convent School (1967–1970), and [[King Edward VI High School, Stafford|Stafford Girls' High School]] (1970–1974), her literary talent encouraged by two English teachers, June Scriven at St Joseph's, and Jim Walker at Stafford Girls' High.<ref name=Forbes/> She was a passionate reader from an early age, and always wanted to be a writer, producing poems from the age of 11. When one of her English teachers died, she wrote:
{{poemquote|You sat on your desk,
swinging your legs, 
reading a poem by Yeats 
to the bored girls, 
except my heart stumbled and blushed
as it fell in love with the words and I saw the tree 
in the scratched old desk under my hands, 
heard the bird in the oak outside scribble itself on the air.<ref>Edemariam, Aida. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/26/carol-ann-duffy-poet-laureate "Carol Ann Duffy: I don't have Ambassadorial Talents"], ''The Guardian'', 26 May 2009.</ref>}}