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Carol A. Duffy

    Carol Ann Duffy è una poetessa e drammaturga scozzese il cui lavoro esplora temi di oppressione, genere e violenza. Le sue poesie sono scritte in un linguaggio accessibile, che le ha rese popolari nelle scuole e apprezzate per la loro potenza letteraria. Duffy si confronta costantemente con argomenti che risuonano nel mondo contemporaneo e il suo stile distintivo ha consolidato la sua reputazione di voce significativa nella poesia moderna. Le sue raccolte dimostrano la capacità di affrontare problemi complessi con forza e chiarezza.

    The World's Wife
    The Hat
    Queen Munch and Queen Nibble
    The Princess Blankets
    1914: Poetry Remembers
    The Christmas Truce
    • The Christmas Truce

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem.

      The Christmas Truce
    • 1914: Poetry Remembers

      • 144pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      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.

      1914: Poetry Remembers
    • The Hat

      • 80pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      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.

      The Hat
    • The World's Wife

      • 96pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      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 World's Wife
    • 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.

      Another Night Before Christmas
    • Rats' Tales

      • 112pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      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

      Rats' Tales
    • Everyman

      • 80pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      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.

      Everyman