Selected Poems

Resumen del libro

In New Selected Poetry, Carol Ann Duffy draws together key poems from her published work to date spanning twenty extraordinary years of definitive writing from Standing Female Nude (1985) to Feminine Gospels (2003). Always vital, original and poignant, Carol Ann Duffy has been called the representative poet of our times'. Her distinctive style incorporates witty acts of ventriloquism and imagination that fearlessly and with sparkling lucidity address timeless and universal themes in ways both personal and political. In doing so, she speaks to our collective memory and establishes herself as a modern classic.