Carol Ann Duffy
22) Feminine gospels
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In 'Feminine Gospels', Carol Ann Duffy draws on visions of women's identity - historical, stereotypical, biblical and fantastical - to entertain and challenge in poems which celebrate, eulogise and eroticise the female form and condition.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Britannia calls a meeting, to listen to her people. Caledonia, Cymru, East Midlands, North East, Northern Ireland and the South West bring the voices of their regions. The debate is passionate and opinions divided. Can there ever be a United Kingdom? In the days following the Brexit vote, a team from the National Theatre of Great Britain spoke to people nationwide, aged 9 to 97, to hear their views on the country we call home. In a series of deeply...
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In this work, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops - the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, this new anthology gathers from centuries of essential poems. The editors have drawn on the rich languages of these islands, starting with the very first poets whose names we know - Taliesin and Aneirin, who composed in Welsh and Old Brythoneg in what is now Scotland - 'to begin at the beginning', to explore the poetry of Ireland and the British Isles in order...
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Collecting together poems that span continents and centuries, 'To The Moon' shows what it is to be human ; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer - like space itself, the are infinite.