The Christmas Truce
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem.
Carol A. Duffy Books
Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright whose work delves into themes of oppression, gender, and violence. Her poems are crafted in an accessible language, making them popular in schools and valued for their literary potency. Duffy consistently engages with subjects that resonate with the contemporary world, and her distinctive style has cemented her reputation as a significant voice in modern poetry. Her collections showcase an ability to tackle complex issues with both power and clarity.
1914: Poetry Remembers
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
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.
From Britain's Poet Laureate comes this captivating new fairy tale
Queen Munch and Queen Nibble
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
A gorgeous, playful story about the beauty of difference and the pleasure of friendship.
The Hat
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
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 World's Wife
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
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.
Rapture
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.
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.
Rats' Tales
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
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
Everyman
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
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.