Rapture
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy, published by Pan Macmillan on September 5, 2024, is an 80-page collection that presents a profound exploration of love through poetry. This book-length love poem serves as a personal testimony, capturing the complexities of love in its many forms, including infatuation, longing, passion, and grief. Duffy’s work stands out for its refusal to simplify the contradictions inherent in love, offering a nuanced perspective that resonates with readers.
In Rapture, readers will find a rich tapestry of emotions that reflect the multifaceted nature of relationships. Duffy’s poetry navigates the churning complexities of love, illustrating how even painful experiences can be transformed into art. The collection emphasizes the importance of expressing genuine human experiences, making it relatable to a wide audience. As part of the Picador Collection, this edition showcases Duffy’s ability to articulate the intricacies of love with both directness and subtlety, inviting readers to engage with the emotional depth of her work.
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‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages’ – Rose Tremain, author of The Road Home and Absolutely and Forever
Rapture, the T.S Eliot Prize-winning collection from former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Carol Ann Duffy, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony. What sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations – infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief – as simply redemptive or destructive.
Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity. Yet in showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives, Duffy has accessed a new level of directness that sacrifices nothing in the way of subtlety of expression. The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers, and nowhere has Duffy more eloquently articulated her belief that poetry should speak for us all.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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