Carol Ann Duffy

Author : Angelica Michelis,Antony Rowland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719063019

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'Choosing Tough Words' by Angelica Michelis,Antony Rowland Pdf

If the post of Poet Laureate was allocated on the basis of popularity, Carol Ann Duffy would have been the first woman to hold this prestigious post. Like Philip Larkin in his day, Duffy is both a poet respected by many academics and teachers, and widely read and enjoyed by children and adult readers of poetry. This is the first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, approaching and exploring her work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, national identity, and post-structuralism. This lively anthology situates Duffy's poems in relation to current debates about the state, value and social relevance of contemporary British poetry.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571199952

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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1778
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : WISC:89094203866

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Bees by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781509893430

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Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry book of the year.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781447231769

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Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her first Collected Poems includes all of the poems from her nine acclaimed volumes of adult poetry - from Standing Female Nude to Ritual Lighting - as well as her much-loved Christmas poems, which celebrate aspects of Christmas: from the charity of King Wenceslas to the famous truce between the Allies and the Germans in the trenches in 1914. Endlessly varied, wonderfully inventive, and emotionally powerful, the poems in this book showcase Duffy's full poetic range: there are poems written in celebration and in protest; public poems and deeply personal ones; poems that are funny, sexy, heartbroken, wise. Taken together they affirm her belief that 'poetry is the music of being human'. Collected Poems is both the perfect single-volume introduction for new readers and a glorious opportunity for old friends to celebrate thirty years' work by one of the country's greatest literary talents. It confirms indisputably that 'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' (Rose Tremain, Guardian).

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780330470575

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Answering Back by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they have inspired – Paul Muldoon, Vickie Feaver and U. A. Fanthorpe, for example, engage with classic works by Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti – the result is a collection of voices that speak to one another across the centuries. Teasing, subverting, arguing, echoing and – ultimately – illuminating, Answering Back is a vibrant, fascinating and timeless anthology, compiled by one of the nation’s favourite poets. ‘Intriguing . . . Entertaining and stimulating’ Good Book Guide ‘A starry game of call and answer across poetic generations’ FT Magazine

Author : Carol Ann Duffy,Gillian Clarke
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571277087

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The Map and the Clock by Carol Ann Duffy,Gillian Clarke Pdf

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 to tell our story across the ages in this beautiful, vital treasury.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781447241829

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Bethlehem by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Bethlehem is normally a quiet little town on the edge of the desert. But tonight, as dusk falls, there is a sense of something special in the air. An inn packed with revellers, shepherds sprawled on the grass, animals in their stables: everything will be changed when a bright star bearing news arrives in the sky. Carol Ann Duffy's evocative poem will transport you to Bethlehem, capturing the sights, the sounds and the atmosphere of this ancient and magical place. With illustrations by Alice Stevenson, Bethlehem by Carol Ann Duffy is a Christmas poem to treasure.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781447206897

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Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect – as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door. ‘Part of Duffy’s talent – besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety – is her ventriloquism . . . From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets – that is, she makes it look easy’ Charlotte Mendelson, Observer

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781509824977

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Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

One of those rare books that is immediately enjoyable yet will repay many re-readings' Poetry Review Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection, for which she was given the Somerset Maughan Award, showcases the Poet Laureate's skill even at the very start of her career. Within are poems that reveal the full range of her interests: from the dramatic monologues, to meditations on death and art, to poems of protest and poems of love. Throughout it all, though, is a resounding determination to give voices to those who are usually voiceless, and always apparent is her inimitable wit, wisdom and imagination. At once tender and sharp, moving and humourous, Selling Manhattan has dazzled both readers and critics ever since it was first published in 1987.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571314294

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Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty.Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines in Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stunning collection of fairy tales. Including her beautiful and haunting retellings of the Grimm classics Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Pied Piper, as well as other tales from around the world, and new stories of her own, this book will make you think again about once upon a time . . . With ethereal illustrations by Tommi Tomislav, this uncommonly beautiful book is a very special introduction to - or reminder of - many classic fairy tales.

Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137415639

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Carol Ann Duffy by Jane Dowson Pdf

This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by ‘Duffyesque’ concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of ‘love, loss, and longing’; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and childhood and written for children. The book should whet the appetite of readers who know little of Duffy’s work to find out more, while providing students and scholars with an in-depth analysis of the poems in their contexts. It draws on a wide range of critical works and includes an extensive list of further reading.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466895867

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Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

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 treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations-infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief-as either redemptive or destructive. This is a map of real love in all its churning complexity, simultaneously direct and subtle, showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives. With poems that will find deep resonance in the experience of most readers, it is a collection that can and does speak for us all.

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781529083545

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Empty Nest by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - Guardian In this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique bond between parent and child. Empty Nest contemplates growing old, the love of a parent, the everyday of family life, as well as poems that explore darker terrains – grief, loss and estrangement. Some of our favourite poets are collected here, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage, Shakespeare, Imtiaz Dharker, Seamus Heaney and Don Paterson. These poems are by turns wry, moving, profound, funny, melancholic and wise; they will console and comfort those suddenly facing a house that may be much cleaner, but is also much quieter, than it once was. There is something here for every reader to treasure. ‘Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language’ - Telegraph

Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Love poetry, English
ISBN : 0330512722

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Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Pdf

Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy brings to her readers the truth of each experience. Her poetry speaks of tangled, heated passion; of erotic love; fierce and hungry love; unrequited love; and of the end of love. It recognises too the way that love can make the everyday sacred. As with all her writing, these poems are alive to the sounds of modern life, but also attuned to - and rich with - the traditions of love poetry. Love Poems contains some of Carol Ann Duffy's most popular poems. Always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, Duffy finds words for our experiences in love and out of love, and displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time.