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Answering Back
Living poets reply to the poetry of the past
E-bok, 2008
164 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they have inspired – Paul Muldoon, Vickie Feaver and U. A. Fanthorpe, for example, engage with classic …
Rapture
E-bok, 2012
181 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose TremainThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary …
Love Poems
Häftad, 2010
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137 kr
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Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill …
To the Moon
An Anthology of Lunar Poems
E-bok, 2009
230 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy's beautiful anthology features an eclectic mix of poems that chart human fascination with the moon across the centuries and around the world.Carol Ann Duffy on To the Moon:'Editing Answering Back, in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many …
Love Poems
E-bok, 2010
181 kr
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Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill …
Another Night Before Christmas
Inbunden, 2020
102 kr
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In a gorgeous pocket-sized hardback, Another Night Before Christmas is Carol Ann Duffy's magical contemporary reworking of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore. Beautifully presented, this wonderful festive poem, illustrated with Rob Ryan's paper cut artwork, is the perfect Christmas gift. On the …
World's Wife
Häftad, 2024
134 kr
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Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous man is a great woman.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 …
Feminine Gospels
Häftad, 2024
137 kr
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In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity.These poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect – as bodies …
Earth Prayers
Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World
Av Carol Ann Duffy DBE, Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Inbunden, 2024
203 kr
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‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - GuardianThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the poems in Earth Prayers span widely across time, but in their moments of joy, …
Earth Prayers
Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World
Av Carol Ann Duffy DBE, Carol Ann Duffy DBE
Häftad, 2025
166 kr
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One hundred poems on the beauty and fragility of the natural world, collated by former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy.The wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the one hundted …
Earth Prayers
Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World
Av Carol Ann Duffy DBE, Carol Ann Duffy DBE
E-bok, 2024
229 kr
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One hundred poems on the beauty and fragility of the natural world, collated by former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy.The wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated by Carol Ann Duffy, the one hundted …
No Figgy Pudding
Inbunden, 2026
160 kr
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The latest in a series of beautiful Christmas poems from Britain's most beloved poet.It’s winter 1646 and the Puritan ban on Christmas has cast a dark pall over the city of London. Cromwell’s men enforce the decree that no one may so much as savour a mince pie, but the people have other ideas. As …
Bees
E-bok, 2012
164 kr
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‘Beautiful and moving poetry for the real world’ Jeanette Winterson, Guardian‘Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language’ Sunday TelegraphThe Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, …
New Selected Poems
1984-2004
Häftad, 2011
184 kr
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The perfect introduction for new readers, the essential selection for students, and a glorious sum of parts for old acquaintances.Endlessly varied and wonderfully inventive, New Selected Poems contains poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first six acclaimed collections, from Standing Female …
Feminine Gospels
A Powerful Poetry Collection of Female Identity
E-bok, 2012
161 kr
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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 …
Other Country
E-bok, 2012
164 kr
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The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy’s third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar – but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected were there, or would not have dared to go …
Wenceslas
A Christmas Poem
Inbunden, 2012
102 kr
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Beginning with the King's Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at their places, the wine is in full flow, the musicians are playing in the gallery and the entertainment has begun. All should be perfect. But when the good …
Christmas Truce
Inbunden, 2014
142 kr
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Down at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Belief was in the air. Then the soldiers ceased fire and the magic of Christmas took hold . . .Carol Ann Duffy's brilliant poem celebrates the …
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice
Häftad, 2013
110 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy, appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett.Featuring such classic poems as 'The Owl and the Pussycat' by Edward Lear …
Collected Poems
Inbunden, 2015
373 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in …
Collected Poems
Häftad, 2019
270 kr
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Collected Poems is both the perfect single-volume introduction for new readers and a glorious opportunity for old friends to celebrate thirty years' work by one of the country's greatest literary talents.Carol Ann Duffy's first Collected Poems includes all of the poems from her nine acclaimed …
Collected Poems
E-bok, 2015
246 kr
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Collected Poems is both the perfect single-volume introduction for new readers and a glorious opportunity for old friends to celebrate thirty years' work by one of the country's greatest literary talents.Carol Ann Duffy's first Collected Poems includes all of the poems from her nine acclaimed …
Mean Time
E-bok, 2013
213 kr
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These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.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 …
Wren-Boys
Inbunden, 2015
102 kr
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It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door, summoning the boys. Today is St. Stephen's Day, when legend has it that the Saint was betrayed by a wren's call, and the boys are off to the forest …
Wren-Boys
E-bok, 2015
131 kr
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It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door, summoning the boys. Today is St. Stephen's Day, when legend has it that the Saint was betrayed by a wren's call, and the boys are off to the forest …
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
Inbunden, 2014
125 kr
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It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday.Carol Ann Duffy's …
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
E-bok, 2014
159 kr
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It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday.Carol Ann Duffy's …
Ritual Lighting
Laureate Poems
E-bok, 2014
230 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in May 2009. In the first five years of her laureateship, she has written brilliant, challenging, lyrical and relevant poetry about people, places and significant moments, past and present. From Chaucer to Shakespeare, from …
World's Wife
An Unforgettable Feminist Poetry Collection
E-bok, 2014
181 kr
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This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.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 …
Standing Female Nude
E-bok, 2016
181 kr
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Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely political, exploring memory, gender, …
