In her prize-winning fourth collection,Mean Time,Poet Laureate 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.
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Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781509852949Number of pages: 64Weight: 88 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 7 mm
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Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our timeDuffy is magnificent,grounded,heartfelt,dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itselfCarol Ann Duffy is one of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry - any poetry - for years. Her project is both subtle and experimental... a contemporary woman poet whose poetic register reaches all the way from a subversive eroticism to a self-conscious regionalism...This new book contains wonderful poems,which extend her lyric range.
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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