"The Long Queen"
from Carol Ann Duffy's
Feminine Gospels
from Carol Ann Duffy's
Feminine Gospels
Carol Ann Duffy:
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she received an honors degree in philosophy in 1977. Her poetry publications have received many awards, including both the Forward Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for Mean Time, as well as the Lannan Literary Award and the E. M. Forster Prize. She has also written two volumes of poetry for children. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Duffy lives in Manchester, England, where she is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. (Photo by Peter Benson)
About Feminine Gospels:
From the sadness of Elizabeth I, looking back on her long and powerful but lonely life, to the travails of a woman whose work is literally never done as she trawls the seas to feed her billion offspring, to a movingly lyrical reflection on the beauty of a growing child, Carol Ann Duffy explores in this volume the myriad components of women's lives and loves through the crystallizing prism of poetry. Sometimes erotic and personal, sometimes historical and grand, sometimes witty and surprising, Duffy's poems reinvent the modern myth through a cosmic variety of crones, courtesans, schoolmarms, and newlyweds. This richly imaginative collection offers beautifully crafted works as varied in style as the poems in her earlier acclaimed volume The World's Wife, ripe with metaphors that twist and turn along unexpected rhymes combined with Duffy's skilled lyricism. These new poems explore the fullness of the female condition through their author's unique poetic voice.
by Carol Ann Duffy
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Selected books available by Carol Ann Duffy:Feminine Gospels — Paperback
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