Now in paperback: a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed on our islands, chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales.
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and grew up in
Stafford, England. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and
the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's
Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won
the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of
Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most
recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and
The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected
Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.
Gillian Clarke was born in Cardiff, Wales. National Poet of Wales
2008-2016, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (2010) and
the Wilfred Owen Association Poetry award (2012), she is one of the
best-known names in UK poetry today, as well as one of the most
popular poets on the school curriculum. Poet, playwright, editor,
translator, she is President of Ty Newydd writers' centre in North
Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Her collections include Making
Beds for the Dead (2004) and A Recipe for Water (2009); her
Selected Poems appeared in 2016.
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