Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heart

- Erica Wagner, author of <i>Ariel's Gift </i> and<i><i> <i> Mary and Mr Eliot </i></i></i>,

Nobody 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 own

The Evening Standard

Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation’s favourite living poet

- Jeanette Winterson, author of <i> Frankissstein <i>,

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, author of The Exhibitionist, Observer
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A dazzling, dashing collection from the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom reissued in the Picador Collection.
A dazzling, dashing collection from the former Poet Laureate.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781035038565
Publisert
2024-02-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Vekt
82 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
80

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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, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list.