Collected Poems
Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy, published by Pan Macmillan on April 4, 2019, is a comprehensive collection that brings together the entirety of Duffy’s adult poetry from her nine acclaimed volumes, spanning from Standing Female Nude to Ritual Lighting. This reprint edition, featuring 608 pages, showcases Duffy’s evolution as a poet and her significant contributions to contemporary British poetry.
Readers will find a diverse array of poems that reflect Duffy’s unique voice and thematic range, including works that celebrate, protest, and explore personal and public experiences. The collection also includes her cherished Christmas poems, which highlight various aspects of the holiday season. With subjects rooted in poetry and the experiences of women authors, this volume serves as both an introduction for new readers and a celebration for long-time admirers of Duffy’s work.
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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).
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