This "Selected Poems" contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed volumes, "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan", "The Other Country", and "Mean Time" (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award), as well as six poems from the later "The World's Wife". 'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar. Highbrow and lowbrow, readers love her' - "The Guardian". 'Carol Ann Duffy is a very, very bright, appealing, clever, ingenious, approachable and...heartwarming writer. She's a Good Thing, capital G, capital T, one of the poets I most enjoy reading' - Andrew Motion.
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Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955, grew up in Staffordshire, and studied philosophy at Liverpool University. She is a former editor of the poetry magazine Ambit and is a regular reviewer and broadcaster. She moved from London to Manchester in 1996 and began to lecture in poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has won many awards in recognition of her work, including the Whitbread Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Signal Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry. She was awarded an OBE in 1995, a CBE in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester.
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Carol Ann Duffy, the first woman poet laureate, explores many different themes in this selection of poems from childhood memories to relationships.
Her poems are accessible and entertaining and yet she is touching, sensitive and witty. Joyce Akesson, author of Love's Thrilling Dimensions
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If you love modern poetry then this is the book for you! Carol Ann Duffy explores many aspects of modern life in this selection of poems from childhood to relationships.... and if you are looking for lighthearted poems the last section on the worlds wife is great! I really enjoyed studying all of the poems for my A levels and will definantly go back and read some of her other poems! DEFINANTLY WORTH A READ! :)
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I never liked poetry before discovering the dark, haunting appeal of Carol Ann Duffy. "Valentine" will stick with me the rest of my life.
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- The Other Country by Carol Ann Duffy in Front Matter
- Selected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas in Front Matter
- Stopping for Death: Poems of Death and Loss by Carol Ann Duffy in Front Matter
- Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Anna Akhmatova in Front Matter
- Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy in Front Matter
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