Love Poems

Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time.

Mysterious yet accessible; both truthful and beautiful; this selection is a paean to the power of love and of language’s ability to capture it., Carol Ann Duffy is a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire, devotion and despair . . . from distant yearning to wild new passion through absence, boredom and infidelity, to break-ups, grief and solitude . . . As always, she manages the rare feat of building on traditions, forebears, allusions while stirring and shaking the emotions with muscular, unpretentious force.

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Writing Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both adults and children, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E.M. Forster Prizes in America. In 2009, she was appointed Poet Laureate. Her collections include The World's Wife, Rapture and The Bees which won the Costa Poetry Award.

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