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en-wikipedia-org-3445		Carol Ann Duffy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5274	693	75	In her first poem as poet laureate, Duffy tackled the scandal over British MPs' expenses in the format of a sonnet.[18] Her second, "Last Post", was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last remaining British soldiers to fight in World War I.[19] Her third, "The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009", addresses current events such as species extinction, the climate change conference in Copenhagen, the banking crisis, and the war in Afghanistan.[20] In March 2010, she wrote "Achilles (for David Beckham)" about the Achilles tendon injury that left David Beckham out of the English football team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup;[21] the poem was published in The Daily Mirror and treats modern celebrity culture as a kind of mythicisation.[22] "Silver Lining", written in April 2010, acknowledges the grounding of flights caused by the ash of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull.[23] On 30 August 2010 she premièred her poem "Vigil" for the Manchester Pride Candlelight Vigil in memory of LGBTQ people who have lost their lives to HIV/AIDS.[24]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3445.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3445.txt