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Feminine Gospels
Series: Picador Collection
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In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions—and revisions—of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were...
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In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions—and revisions—of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect—as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door.
Part of Duffy's talent—besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety—is her ventriloquism... From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets—that is, she makes it look easy - Charlotte Mendelson, Observer
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035038565
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 82g
Pages: 80
About the 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 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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