Feminine Gospels
$20.37
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2024
Summary
In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical, and the fantastical to create various visions—and revisions—of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect—as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals, or girls-next-…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035038565 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035038560 |
| Author: | Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, Carol Ann Duffy |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 82g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heart – Erica Wagner, author of Ariel’s Gift and Mary and Mr Eliot
Nobody is ever going to need to be told how to enjoy a Carol Ann Duffy poem … She is an inspired reinterpreter of myth and a fertile creator of fables of her own * The Evening Standard *
Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation’s favourite living poet – Jeanette Winterson, author of Frankissstein
Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.
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