Has an optimist side that Larkin did not ..
visible in her many love poems
Jody Randolph
Writes in everyday
Conversational language
Persistent sense in her work that love involved
as much suffering as it does joy
Preston
Her personae are disappointed figures
in need of comfort
Peter cash
Many of duffys poems echo
theme of Larkin
Mean time is a book concerned with
recovery and memory
Duffys poetry was filled with lost
loved abs yearning for the past
Viner
Dramatic monologue in her exploration
Of different voices and identities
Spoken in the voices of the
urban disaffected, people in the margins of society
Change in her suburban world
Inevitably involves loss