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Standing Female Nude
Carol Ann Duffy
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Description for Standing Female Nude
Paperback. This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy's impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skillful, passionate. Since its publication in 1985, Duffy has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 108.
Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely political, exploring memory, gender, childhood and place. Within it are also some of her best-known poems, including 'Education for Leisure', as well as, of course, the poem from which the collection takes its title. First published in 1985 to widespread critical acclaim, Standing Female Nude is a work of startling originality and the starting point of ... Read more
Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fiercely political, exploring memory, gender, childhood and place. Within it are also some of her best-known poems, including 'Education for Leisure', as well as, of course, the poem from which the collection takes its title. First published in 1985 to widespread critical acclaim, Standing Female Nude is a work of startling originality and the starting point of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509824960
SKU
V9781509824960
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Ref
99-50
About Carol Ann Duffy
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 appointed Poet Laureate of the United ... Read more
Reviews for Standing Female Nude
Breaks the windows of perception in new ways altogether ... a genuine and original poet
Robert Nye The Times Carol Ann Duffy is a very pure poet ... it is good to see a crusading sensibility refusing to surrender any touch of art to the urgency of its cause
Peter Porter Observer
Robert Nye The Times Carol Ann Duffy is a very pure poet ... it is good to see a crusading sensibility refusing to surrender any touch of art to the urgency of its cause
Peter Porter Observer