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I went to the launch of this book recently, which was a performance by both the author Carol Ann Duffy and Eliana Tomkins, the composer and singer. It was one of the most exciting literary events I have ever attended. The words spoken by Duffy were powerful and beautiful, but the added pleasure of hearing the poems so beautifully captured in song was a moving experience I would like to repeat, at which the audience wept, amazed. The songs are fabulous; easy to listen to but also full of gorgeous surprises; Ms Tomkins' voice is a creamy, erotic wonder. Do not miss the book nor the cd, which is on the JAZZ7 label.

Carol Ann Duffy's book is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. It is a collection of love poems about the different complex manifestations of love, such as the feelings of infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation and grief. This fabulous collection speaks for everyone.

Joyce Akesson, author of Love's Thrilling Dimensions

A modern Shakespeare, awakening our senses to the way love dissolves boundaries and occupies everything from rivers to clouds to stars to gardens and earth and leaves and graves. If you love the way a poem tumbles off your tongue, read this book. Every line is quotable, memorable. If you enjoy love and grief as a topic (and they most certainly go together), read this book.