Synopsis
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',...
Details
20 October 201680 pages
9781509824960Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Breaks the windows of perception in new ways altogether . . . a genuine and original poetRobert 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 causePeter Porter, Observer
