The wives of famous men speak for themselves in this fifth collection of poems by Duffy, a British poet. Among those to whom she gives voice are the wives of Freud, King Kong, and the Devil.
This "Selected Poems" contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed volumes, "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan", "The Other Country", and "Mean Time" (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award), as well as six poems from the later "The World's Wife". 'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar. ...
The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired contemporary poet. "Rapture", her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony - but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of ...
A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women--historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life--from the award-winning author of "The World's Wife." From the sadness of Elizabeth I, looking back on her long and powerful but lonely life, to the travails of a woman whose work is literally never done as she continues to ...
The author is the winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993. In her fourth collection, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.
This volume draws together a body of work spanning the last twenty years. It includes poems from six major collections, from "Standing Female Nude" (1985) to "Feminine Gospels" (2002), and a handful of 'other poems', collected here for the first time. It shows a writer who hit the ground running, emerging into the world a fully formed and utterly ...
The wives of famous men speak for themselves in this fifth collection of poems by Duffy, a British poet. Among those to whom she gives voice are the wives of Freud, King Kong, and the Devil.
What would happen if we lost the happy endings to stories - imagine the tears at bedtime! A fantastic and magical tale about what happens when, one night, a wicked witch steals the happy endings to bedtime stories. It is up to Jub, the keeper of the happy endings, to save the day and ensure sweet dreams everywhere in this lyrical story about ...
'Poetry, the poets here teach us, is language as life; not only a baton-like passing-on of tradition but a way of making the human immortal. With all their joys, jokes, passions, protests, loves and losses, the poems here prove that it is not only silence that poetry answers back'. Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and ...
Doris is a lonely giant who lives above the world but never feels she's part of it. One day her life changes when she meets another giant, called Boris.
In Out of Fashion Carol Ann Duffy selects the best and freshest contemporary poets and asks them in turn to select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, which looks at how we dress, or undress, how we cover up or reveal. In these vibrant poems, we are shown how clothes, fashion and jewelry are both a necessity and a luxury. The ...
This is the author's first collection of poems for younger children. It aims to demonstrate how poetry can be funny, sad, scary, exhilarating and full of relevance to the way we live - all at the same time!
In Duffy's second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses. Meet a bad princess, and a king of snide, discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests, and learn that transformation is a way of life.
In this, her third collection of poetry for children, Carol Ann Duffy brings a contagious, whirling energy to all she surveys. Whether it's the heroes of rock 'n' roll, stray giantesses and queens, the husband of the Lock Ness monster, or a girl that falls into a jam jar; with secrets and spells, songs of unrequited love, confessions and pleas, ...
Carol Ann Duffy's third collection takes us to 'the other country' - the places that we visit in fantasy, memory and imagination. 'What is admirable about Duffy', commented Robert Nye in "The Times", 'is that she celebrates such places without sentimentalizing them, and wrings the last drop of meaning from each visit'.
'Poetry, like love, depends on a kind of recognition. So often with Duffy does the reader say, "Yes, that's it exactly," that she could well become the representative poet of the present day' - Sean O'Brien, "Sunday Times". "Selected Poems" contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her acclaimed volumes, "Standing Female Nude" (1985), ...
The last two decades have brought profound changes and most Canadians who experienced this period in our history marked them as a crucial turning point in the evolution of Canadian society. Each day, the media provided evidence of the growing tension around such pivotal issues as the need for trade unions in a post-industrial, information society, ...
A retelling of classic children's tales by The Brothers Grimm, including "Snow White", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Ashputtel" ("Cinderella") and "Little Red-cap". This interpretation by Carol Ann Duffy seeks to remove the sugariness of contemporary versions and return to the orginal, darker mould.
When Rebecca made secret vows to the wounded man in the barn, it did not matter that he was a Tory, for he was soon taken away to a colonial prison. But five years later, Nicholas Wythe returned to claim his bride. Rebecca had fallen in love with the enemy, but this was one war she was determined to win.
Carol Ann Duffy has selected 36 of the best world poets writing today and invited each of them to select a love poem written by the opposite sex which will appear opposite their own love poem. The poets have been encouraged to look to other centuries for their choice as well as to our own time. Simon Armitage, Hugo Williams, Billy Collins, Jackie ...
In recent years George MacBeth has sometimes seemed in danger of being forgotten. This selection, chosen from poems written when MacBeth was in his late teens to the work of his last months, will give a new generation the chance to enjoy his memorable voice. In her preface, Carol Ann Duffy writes that 'His poetry is eclectic, formally dazzling, ...
A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women--historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life--from the award-winning author of "The World's Wife" From the sadness of Elizabeth I, looking back on her long and powerful but lonely life, to the travails of a woman whose work is literally never done as she continues to trawl ...
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