Politics - Hardcover

by Carol Ann Duffy (Author)

One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Politics - one of four themed collections - Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favorites among her political poetry. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically, Duffy also adds to the selection her poem written for Danny Boyle's Pages of the Sea memorial for The Great War. It makes for a sequence that is searching, memorializing, healing.

Author Biography

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and 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 2009-2019.