A critically acclaimed collection from Carol Ann Duffy, her first as Poet Laureate.
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems and Rapture. The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award.
Beautiful and moving poetry for the real world
*Guardian*
Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of
language
*Sunday Telegraph*
Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion
that poetry can give us the music of life itself
*Scotsman*
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