Feminine Gospels

by Carol Ann Duffy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509852918
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	10/01/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Carol Ann Duffy has been Britain's Poet Laureate since 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Rapture, and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. She has also received the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in the U.S.

Editorial Reviews

One of Britain's premier poets here does what she does best, joining wild, surrealistic imagery and pointillist detail to create sharply realized, visionary poems. . . . Duffy never settles for mere cleverness. Her poetic technique is sure and subtle.” ―Booklist


"Duffy is arguably the nation’s favorite living poet." —Jeanette Winterson

From the Publisher

In preaching Feminine Gospels, Manchester, U.K.-based poet Carol Ann Duffy creates speakers to articulate "The Diet," "The Woman Who Shopped," "The Laughter of Swofford Girls High" and a woman "dreaming/ till the stars are blue in the face/ printing the news of their old light." Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

British poet Duffy revisits queens and school girls, dieting, shopping, and work in closely observed miniatures that have nothing to do with agenda. A real find. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal