Review
'One of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry - any poetry - for years' - Eavan Boland, Independent on Sunday'Poetry, like love, depends on a kind of recognition. So often with Duffy does the reader say, "Yes, that's it exactly", that she could well become the representative poet of the present day, much as Philip Larkin came to seem for the time between Attlee and Thatcher' - Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times
Product Description
This interim selection from a popular and award-winning poet presents new and uncollected work, including poems written since her award-winning collection "Mean Time" (1993), poems from "The World's Wife" and poems for children.
About the Author
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'. The anthologies she has edited include 'Anvil New Poets 2' and two for teenagers, 'I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine' and 'Stopping for Death'. Her 'Selected Poems' is published by Penguin; her most recent collections 'The World's Wife' and 'Feminine Gospels' are published by Picador.
