The World's Wife: Poems (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

The World's Wife: Poems (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, strayfrom home.So better by far for me if you were stone.--from 'Medusa' Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife

The Bees (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

Here Carol Ann Duffy uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and--most movingly--the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's

New Selected Poems - 1984-2004 (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

The essential Carol Ann

Collected Poems (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

A major literary event: the first Collected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy

101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful poetry collection chosen by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann

Love Poems (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling selection of love poems from the Poet

Sincerity (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

Sincerity is Duffy's final collection of poems as UK Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the Costa Award-winning The Bees. Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of life. There are moving elegies here for what has departed;

The World's Wife (Duffy Ann)(Paperback)

Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman--and from the quick-tongued Mrs. Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her

Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy - Choosing Tough Words(Paperback / softback)

The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, including feminism, masculinity, national

Christmas Truce (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

A poem by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrating the magic of Christmas during World War One. Published as a large format book with colour illustrations by David

Mean Time (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and

Jubilee Lines (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Through a series of specially commissioned poems, Jubilee Lines offers a unique portrayal of the country and times in which we have lived since 1953, culminating in an essential portrait of today: the way we speak, the way we chronicle, the way we love and fight, the way we honour and

Rapture (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet

Beasts and Beauties (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy (Plath Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to

Wenceslas - A Christmas Poem (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful Christmas poem retelling the carol of King Wenceslas, beautifully illustrated by Stuart

Standing Female Nude (Duffy Ann)(Paperback)

This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy's impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skillful, passionate. Since its publication in 1985, Duffy has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of

Off The Shelf - A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Off the Shelf is a beautiful anthology of specially commissioned poems written in celebration of books and bookshops, edited by the poet laureate Carol Ann

The Princess' Blankets (Ann Duffy Carol)(Paperback / softback)

From Britain's Poet Laureate comes this captivating new fairy

Wren-Boys (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

A wonderful Christmas poem from the Poet

Everyman (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

Everyman is successful, popular, and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the life he has built, he embarks on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defense. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual

1914: Poetry Remembers (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most

Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

A wonderful Christmas poem from the Poet

Selected Poems (Akhmatova Anna)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFYAnna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian