In Feminine Gospels,Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical,the archetypal,the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises,these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions,and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect - as bodies and corpses,writers and workers,shoppers and slimmers,fairytale royals or girls-next-door.'Part of Duffy's talent - besides her ear for ordinary eloquence,her gorgeous,powerful,throwaway lines,her subtlety - is her ventriloquism...From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps,her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets - that is,she makes it look easy'Charlotte Mendelson,Observer
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781509852918Number of pages: 80Weight: 112 gDimensions: 196 x 129 x 9 mm
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Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill,talent and great heartNobody is ever going to need to be told how to enjoy a Carol Ann Duffy poem...She is an inspired reinterpreter of myth and a fertile creator of fables of her ownCarol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation's favourite living poet
Carol Ann Duffy
A playwright and writer,Carol Ann Duffy is best known as one of Britain's most popular and critically acclaimed poets and currently holds the post of Poet Laureate. Her best-known works include: Feminine Gospels,The World's Wife,Rapture, The Bees and Sincerity and,as editor,101 Poems for Children,Armistice and The Map and the Clock.
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