Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit

Carol Ann Duffy imagines a menu for the banquet while seemingly inviting readers to think of the plight of those in peril. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian

Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem about Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain that appears to reimagine the ceremonial banquet as taking place in a bombsite.

Duffy, who was the UK’s poet laureate between 2009 and 2019, writes of the “rocks and rubble” in lines that have the reader contrasting the diamonds of the “great and good” with the ruins left by war.