The Other Country

by Carol Ann Duffy

Overview

This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected were there, or would not have dared to go alone. Some of its voices are disarmingly direct, while others blur the lines between fantasy and reality, confession and self-delusion, forcing us to re-examine everything we thought we knew about some of our most basic human drives and emotions. This collection is deeply intelligent, unflinchingly honest, with a deftness of touch and tone, and openness all the more moving for its lack of sentimentality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509852932
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.50(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.

Table of Contents

	Originally	7
	In Mrs Tilscher's Class	8
	Sit at peace	9
	Hometown	10
	Translating the English, 1989	11
	Mrs Skinner, North Street	12
	Too Bad	13
	Weasel Words	14
	Poet for Our Times	15
	Job Creation	16
	Making Money	17
	Talent Contest	19
	Ape	20
	The Legend	21
	Descendants	22
	We Remember Your Childhood Well	24
	The Act of Imagination	25
	Somewhere Someone's Eyes	27
	Liar	28
	Boy	29
	Eley's Bullet	30
	Following Francis	32
	Survivor	33
	An Afternoon with Rhiannon	34
	Losers	35
	M-M-Memory	36
	Pere Lachaise	37
	Funeral	38
	Dream of a Lost Friend	39
	Like This	40
	Who Loves You	41
	Two Small Poems of Desire	42
	Girlfriends	43
	A Shilling for the Sea	44
	Hard to Say	45
	The Kissing Gate	46
	Words, Wide Night	47
	The Darling Letters	48
	Away from Home	49
	November	51
	The Literature Act	52
	River	53
	The Way My Mother Speaks	54
	In Your Mind	55