Standing Female Nude [Paperback]

Carol Ann Duffy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2004

This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy's impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skilful, passionate.

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time'. On May 1, 2009 she was named the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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'A clarity, a mixture of charm and truthfulness which breaks the windows of perception in new ways altogether... a book that marks the debut of a genuine and original poet'Robert Nye, The Times

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1955. She has won all major UK poetry prizes as well as a Lannan Literary Award in the USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry (June 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0856463094
• ISBN-13: 978-0856463099
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,145,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars always surprising, always impressive, February 15, 1999

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This review is from: Standing Female Nude (Paperback)

Carol Ann Duffy covers a wide world from her London perch in the 1980's. Her poetry is modern, well-written, easy to click into, and gripping in its realism. Often you are the character,and always you are sucked well and truly in! This is now in a reprint, 10 years after being one of Duffy's first published collections. An entertaining and warming forary into the world of poetry! Carol Ann Duffy now lives in Manchester. Born in Glasgow she spent her early twenties writing poetry in Liverpool, moving down to London and really taking the poetry world by storm. It is well worth checking out anything with her name on it. Look also for plays by Carol Ann Duffy.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Carol Ann Duffy is great!, February 11, 2010

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This review is from: Standing Female Nude (Paperback)

I am hooked on Carol Ann Duffy's poems. Like all poetry, they get better and better the more times they are read. It helps to have a glass of Sherry. Then, I sat on the couch between my two big dogs and read aloud. They seemed to enjoy the poems also.