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Duffy, Carol Ann was born on December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. Daughter of Francis and Mary (Black) Duffy.
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A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women--historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life--from the award-winning author of "The World's Wife." 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 continues to trawl 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 full of surprises, the poems in Feminine Gospels are all beautifully crafted works that are as varied in style as the poems in Duffy's earlier acclaimed volume "The World's Wife." Together, they will challenge and entertain as they explore the fullness of the female condition through their author's unique poetic voice.
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( A new collection of poems ranging over the experience o...)
A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women--historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life--from the award-winning author of The World's Wife. 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 continues to trawl 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 full of surprises, the poems in Feminine Gospels are all beautifully crafted works that are as varied in style as the poems in Duffy's earlier acclaimed volume The World's Wife. Together, they will challenge and entertain as they explore the fullness of the female condition through their author's unique poetic voice.
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( The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second co...)
The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection range from the dramatic monologues for which she is noted to love poems, which she writes, Robert Nye remarked, as if she were the first to do so'. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time'. On May 1, 2009 she was named the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
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Meeting Midnight is a collection for young readers by one of the most exciting poets writing today. These poems will blow your head away. An exuberant mix of the funny, the sinister, the tender and the ridiculous, they will transport you to worlds half magical, half eerily familiar. The boundaries between real and imagined lives are blurred to sometimes disturbing effect; this is a place where graves are liable to open up before our feet, where we can be plunged into quicksand one minute or left with sinister strangers the next. Among the many characters we meet there's an inveterate liar, a boy who thinks he's Elvis Presley, a girl infatuated with a tree and two outrageously matched Queens.
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(Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime, the ...)
Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime, the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack as she steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all those tears? This warm, poignant and beautifully illustrated story offers a thought-provoking message and a starting point for sharing children s emotional responses.
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( This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann ...)
This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy's impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skilful, passionate. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time'. On May 1, 2009 she was named the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.
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A wicked witch has devised a most devious caper: she has stolen all the happy endings to bedtime stories. Now all of the children’s favorite stories are bringing them to tears at bedtime. In this fantastic and magical tale, it is up to Jub—the keeper of the happy endings—to save the day and ensure sweet dreams everywhere.
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( Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Po...)
Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993 Â In her fourth collection, Mean Time, 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 desire. Â Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection Mean Time. On May 1, 2009 she was named the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Â
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(On the night before Christmas, A child in a house, As the...)
On the night before Christmas, A child in a house, As the whole family slept, Behaved just like a mouse ...It's the night before Christmas and a young girl creeps down the stairs, determined to find out for certain whether Santa is real ...But try as she might, she can't keep awake and is soon fast asleep. She doesn't stir, even when Santa and his reindeer land on her roof-top but then, when he bursts out of her fireplace, she wakes to a room filled with magic. As she watches him fly off into the night, she knows that she will never forget this sight because, at Christmas, the best gift of all is belief. Carol Ann Duffy's twenty-first-century reworking of the Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination and, illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan, it will be the perfect gift this Christmas.
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(This is the second in a series which aims to show the ric...)
This is the second in a series which aims to show the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. It offers representative poems of three poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver and Eavan Boland, who chose the poems themselves.
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( Mermaids both milk the cows and read the calves a bedti...)
Mermaids both milk the cows and read the calves a bedtime story while water-pigs hunt for pearls in this beautiful, poetic tale illustrated with quiet magic  Under the blue-green fields of the Deep Bleat the bubbly baas of webbed-feet sheep Starfish twinkle in the ocean sky Electric eels are comets zooming high. The moon is the silver of a dolphin's skin In the watery heaven Where angelfish swim. Dive under the sea to the underwater farmyard where dolphins dance among the sheep and cows, while a musical octopus plays. Ethereal and atmospheric illustrations perfectly capture the slow, lulling flow of the cows and other farmyard animals in this fantastically strange bedtime story.
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(What can a little girl do in the jungle? Play snap with a...)
What can a little girl do in the jungle? Play snap with a crocodile? Join-the-dots on a leopard's spots? Pin-the-tail on an elephant? Or just pick up a snake and skip all the way home! With its irresistible rhyme and jungly illustrations, this is a joyful, anarchic picture book from the author and illustrator of "Queen Munch and Queen Nibble".
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(In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for ch...)
In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for children, Carol Ann Duffy creates a living and breathing world, imaginatively self-sufficient, yet recognisable as one that hovers at the edges of our dreams and nightmares. In her second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses; meet, among others, a bad princess and a king of snide; discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests; and learn that, in a world where transformation is a way of life, what we want is not always what we get.
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( Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for...)
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (The Guardian) The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations-infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief-as either redemptive or destructive. This is a map of real love in all its churning complexity, simultaneously direct and subtle, showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives. With poems that will find deep resonance in the experience of most readers, it is a collection that can and does speak for us all.
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( A lunar landscape is the setting for a very special zoo...)
A lunar landscape is the setting for a very special zoo where elephants' "trunks are telescopes probing space, pointing up at the Earth's blue face" and baboons "jump twenty feet into outer space and flash their bottoms at the human race!" The moon tiger scratches at shooting stars, polar bears float down from their mountain for starfish and salad, and the zookeeper, of course, is an alien, complete with eight bright green hands. Lyrical, humorous verses illuminate an entrancing world that is both familiar and strange, while soft-toned, wonderfully strange illustrations capture the eerie beauty of the moon zoo.
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Duffy, Carol Ann was born on December 23, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. Daughter of Francis and Mary (Black) Duffy.
Bachelor in Philosophy, with honors, University Liverpool, England, 1977.
Visiting fellow, North Riding College, 1985. Poetry editor Ambit magazine, London, since 1983.
( A lunar landscape is the setting for a very special zoo...)
(What can a little girl do in the jungle? Play snap with a...)
( Mermaids both milk the cows and read the calves a bedti...)
( Winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Po...)
(In the tradition of the great and enduring writers for ch...)
( The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second co...)
(A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of ...)
( A new collection of poems ranging over the experience o...)
(Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime, the ...)
(In this collection, ever popular fairy tales have been ad...)
( This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann ...)
( A wicked witch has devised a most devious caper: she ha...)
(On the night before Christmas, A child in a house, As the...)
(This is the second in a series which aims to show the ric...)
(Meeting Midnight is a collection for young readers by one...)
(Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy - Picador,)
(Selected Poetry from Salmonpoetry)
( Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for...)