Carol Ann Duffy reads a poem
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The World's Wife: Poems
- ASIN: 057119995X
- ISBN: 057119995X
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, strayfrom home.So better by far for me if you were stone.--from "Medusa"Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incis... [Read More]
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Mrs. Scrooge: A Christmas Poem
- ASIN: 1439176337
- ISBN: 1439176337
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
• A witty modernized re-telling of the classic Christmas Carol story: Starting with “Scrooge doornail-dead,” Carol Ann Duffy’s elegantly witty take on the Dickens tale, like the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes the reader by the hand through the snowy streets of London and through the touching untold romance of one of literature’s most reco... [Read More]
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Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy
- ASIN: 0141025123
- ISBN: 0141025123
- Manufacturer: Penguin Global
Offers a selection of works from five of the poet's previously published volumes, including "Standing Female Nude," "The Other Country," and "Selling Manhattan."
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Rapture: Poems
- ASIN: 0865478864
- ISBN: 0865478864
- Brand: Brand: Faber Faber
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (The Guardian)The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other tre... [Read More]
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Love Poems
- ASIN: 0330512722
- ISBN: 0330512722
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Picador
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 that have made her one of the foremost poets of her t... [Read More]
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Mean Time
- ASIN: 1509852948
- ISBN: 9781509852949
- Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan
In her prize-winning fourth collection, 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 life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.
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The Bees: Poems
- ASIN: 0865478856
- ISBN: 0865478856
- Brand: Brand: Faber Faber
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" (The Guardian)The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize–winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic... [Read More]
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The World's Wife (York Notes Advanced)
- ASIN: 1405861851
- ISBN: 1405861851
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Pearson Education Canada
’s favourite and best selling range of English Literature study notes. Packed with features designed to help students get the most from the text they are studying: - Summaries with detailed commentaries - Extended commentaries on key passages - Discussion of themes and literary techniques -�... [Read More]
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Hand in Hand
- ASIN: 0330482254
- ISBN: 0330482254
- Manufacturer: Pan MacMillan
Carol Ann Duffy has selected 36 of the best world poets writing today and invited each of them to select a love poem written by the opposite sex which will appear opposite their own love poem. The poets have been encouraged to look to other centuries for their choice as well as to our own time. Simon Armitage, Hugo Williams, Billy Collins, Jackie K... [Read More]
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Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems 1985-1993
- ASIN: 1405502207
- ISBN: 1405502207
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown Book Group
Carol Ann Duffy is one of the most widely-read living poets in Britain, known for being both accessible and yet an academic favorite. She has chosen her favorite poems for this collection, drawing from her first four acclaimed books: Standing Female Nude, Selling Manhattan, The Other Country, and Mean Time (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award... [Read More]
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All The Best
- ASIN: 0141316373
- ISBN: 0141316373
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Puffin
A wonderful selection of over 100 of Roger's own best-loved poems from his vast Puffin catalogue of poetry collections. Lots of favourites and some lesser known surprises, too. Packed with fabulous Lydia Monks illustrations throughout.
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iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility
- ASIN: 0857865579
- ISBN: 0857865579
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Canongate Books
If you need cheering up...If you need guidance...If you want to laugh...If you need courage...Sometimes only a poem will do.In this magical new collection of our best-loved poems, selected and introduced by the creators of the bestselling app iF Poems, discover the joy, solace and beauty of poetry with your family. Whether you're after a poem that ... [Read More]
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Underwater Farmyard
- ASIN: 0230748066
- ISBN: 0230748066
- Manufacturer: Macmillan Children's Books
Mermaids both milk the cows and read the calves a bedtime story while water-pigs hunt for pearls in this beautiful, poetic tale illustrated with quiet magic Under the blue-green fields of the DeepBleat the bubbly baas of webbed-feet sheepStarfish twinkle in the ocean skyElectric eels are comets zooming high.The moon is the silver of a dolphi... [Read More]
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Feminine Gospels: Poems
- ASIN: 0571211879
- ISBN: 0571211879
- Brand: Brand: Faber n Faber
- Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women—historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life—from the award-winning author of The World’s WifeFrom the sadness of Elizabeth I, looking back on her long and powerful but lonely life, to the travails of a woman whose work is literally never done as she continues to trawl ... [Read More]
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Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past
- ASIN: 0330448242
- ISBN: 0330448242
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan
Carol Ann Duffy has asked some of the brightest writers in the poetry world to select a poem that is meaningful—or has meant something—to them, and write a response to it. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they've inspired, Answering Back promises to be a truly unique and insig... [Read More]
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Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Poets' Favourite Poems
- ASIN: 0330517120
- ISBN: 0330517120
- Manufacturer: Picador
In an outstanding collection of both classic and new poems, 30 of the best contemporary poets have selected their favorite children’s poem to appear alongside a poem of their own.
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Joinedupwriting
- ASIN: 0241374200
- ISBN: 0241374200
- Manufacturer: Viking
AN EXUBERANT NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST LOVED POETS 'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann DuffyFor more than fifty years, Roger McGough has entranced generations of readers with poetry which is at once playful and poignant, intimate and ambitious in its scope. From forgotten friendships and the idiosyncrasies of family life, to the ... [Read More]
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Moon Zoo
- ASIN: 0230748058
- ISBN: 0230748058
- Manufacturer: Macmillan Children's Books
A lunar landscape is the setting for a very special zoo where elephants' "trunks are telescopes probing space, pointing up at the Earth's blue face" and baboons "jump twenty feet into outer space and flash their bottoms at the human race!"The moon tiger scratches at shooting stars, polar bears float down from their mountain for starfish and sa... [Read More]
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The Poetry of Sex
- ASIN: B00EAA6QHW
- Manufacturer: Penguin
The Poetry of Sex - a raucous, highly enjoyable anthology by acclaimed poet Sophie Hannah 'We've been at it all summer, from the Canadian border to the edge of Mexico . . .'It's hard to imagine a more fruitful subject for poets than sex, in all its glorious manifestations: from desire and hope, through disappointment and confusion, to conclusion an... [Read More]
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Masquerade: The Darker Side of Love: Volume 2 (Poems By Stephan J Myers)
- ASIN: B078QVT479
- Manufacturer: KRONOS PUBLISHING LONDON
The Book Your Parents Would Never Let You Read! The Underground Poetry Book For Lovers Everywhere. For anyone one who has ever experienced the electrifying intensity of true love, yearned for more, hidden their true desires or experienced the devastation of a love turned to something dark and cruel, these are the words you will return to time and... [Read More]
Carol Ann Duffy reads a poem
Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet Laureate, March 3, 2015, Emory Libraries
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