The Christmas Truce
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Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem.
Carol Ann Duffy is een Schotse dichteres en toneelschrijfster wiens werk thema's als onderdrukking, gender en geweld onderzoekt. Haar gedichten zijn geschreven in een toegankelijke taal, waardoor ze populair zijn geworden op scholen en gewaardeerd worden om hun literaire kracht. Duffy houdt zich consequent bezig met onderwerpen die resoneren in de hedendaagse wereld, en haar kenmerkende stijl heeft haar reputatie als een belangrijke stem in de moderne poëzie gevestigd. Haar collecties tonen een vermogen om complexe problemen met zowel kracht als duidelijkheid aan te pakken.






Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem.
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This book presents their choices.
From Britain's Poet Laureate comes this captivating new fairy tale
A gorgeous, playful story about the beauty of difference and the pleasure of friendship.
In this delightful new collection of poetry for children, Carol Ann Duffy takes us on a mud-and-all ramble through sand, socks, songs and schoolrooms. Charming and witty, infectiously enjoyable, these poems take pleasure in the discovery of imaginative worlds, from the loneliness of ghosts and ghouls to a shopping trip by Manchunian cows.
In Carol Ann Duffy's latest collection of poems, the stories of famous men - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontious Pilate, King Kong - are presented from the perspective of the lesser-known wife.
The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.
Carol Ann Duffy's twenty-first-century reworking of this Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination. Illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan, it's the perfect gift this Christmas.
On Beasts and Beauties, on which Carol Ann Duffy and Melly Still also collaborated: 'The first night audience did not exit from the theatre, they hover-crafted out of it on a balloon of bliss.' Independent
Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives.