Carol Ann Duffy is an out British poet and playwright. Earlier this year she was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first female and the first openly homosexual person to ascend to the traditional post. Today she published her new Christmas work which attacks the war in Afghanistan, MP's expenses, banking and many more current issues.

Public roles should be inhabited comfortably and happily by people whatever their sexuality is.
- Carol Ann Duffy

Read the poem in its entirety here.