World's Wife

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous man is a great woman – and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection of feminist poems.Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best, reissued as part of the Picador Collection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-11
Mått:130 x 198 x 8 mm
Vikt:96 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Picador Collection
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9781035038541
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for T. S. Eliot Prize 2000 (UK)

Utforska kategorier

Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. 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 Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.