Mean Time

Author: Carol Ann Duffy

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  • : 29.99 NZD
  • : 9780330516778
  • : Pan Macmillan
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  • : May 2013
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : June 2013
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Barcode 9780330516778
9780330516778

Description

In her prize-winning 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.

Reviews

'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' Guardian 'Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself' Scotsman

Author description

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 and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.