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The World’s Wife

Publisher:
Pan Macmillan UK
| Author:
Carol Ann Duffy
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan UK
Author:
Carol Ann Duffy
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback

488

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This unique collection of poems from the former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.

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 counterpart?s shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.

Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World?s Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

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This unique collection of poems from the former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.

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 counterpart?s shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.

Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World?s Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

About Author

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 for a decade 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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