Carol Ann Duffy Writer Bibliography

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Mrs. Dalloway by Carol Ann Duffy, Virginia Woolf

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In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and, met with the realities of the present, she re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

The World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

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"Be terrified. "" It's you I love, ""perfect man, ""Greek God, my own; ""but I know you'll go, "" betray me, stray""from home.""So better by far for ""me if you were stone."--from "Medusa" Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife...

Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy

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'Poetry, like love, depends on a kind of recognition. So often with Duffy does the reader say, "Yes, that's it exactly," that she could well become the representative poet of the present day' - Sean O'Brien, "Sunday Times". "Selected Poems" contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her acclaimed volumes,...

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

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The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. "Rapture", her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the...

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

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The author is the winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993. In her fourth collection, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful...

Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

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Carol Ann Duffy has selected 36 of the best world poets writing today and invited each of them to select a love poem written by the opposite sex which will appear opposite their own love poem. The poets have been encouraged to look to other centuries for their choice as well as to our own time. Simon Armitage, Hugo...

The Oldest Girl in the World by Marketa Prachaticka, Carol Ann Duffy

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In Duffy's second collection for children, we are trained by the oldest girl in the world to be alert to every one of our senses. Meet a bad princess, and a king of snide, discover spells to get rid of unwanted pests, and learn that transformation is a way of life.

Meeting Midnight by Carol Ann Duffy

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This is the author's first collection of poems for younger children. It aims to demonstrate how poetry can be funny, sad, scary, exhilarating and full of relevance to the way we live - all at the same time!

More Grimm Tales by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Carol Ann Duffy, Tim Supple

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This second volume of dramatizations of tales by the Brothers Grimm includes "Little Red Riding Hood", "Snow White" and "Rumpelstiltskin".

Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

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Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy brings to her readers the truth of each experience. Her poetry speaks of tangled, heated passion; of erotic love; fierce and hungry love; unrequited love; and of the end of love. It recognizes too the way that love can...

Underwater Farmyard by Carol Ann Duffy, Joel Stewart

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Dive under the sea to the underwater farmyard where dolphins dance among the sheep and cows, while a musical octopus plays. This is a magical picture book written by the new Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and illustrated by Joel Stewart, winner of the Macmillan Prize for Illustration. 'One of those rare books that...

Moon Zoo by Carol Ann Duffy, Joel Stewart

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'Hippos wallow in the moon's deep craters, Bobbing with the rhinos and the alligators'. The moon tiger scratches at shooting stars, polar bears float down from their mountain for starfish and chips, and the zookeeper, of course, is an alien. Carol Ann Duffy's lyrical, humorous verse illuminates an entrancing world...

Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, Carol Ann Duffy

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This title features an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Thomas,...

To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

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There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the "Chinese Book of Odes", written around 500 B.C, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the moon itself: I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays...

New and Collected Poems for Children by Carol Ann Duffy

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'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar' - "Guardian". This stellar edition of her poems brings together work from her four award-winning collections for children, and sprinkles in a generous helping of new poems to match. From her dazzlingly debut "Meeting Midnight" through to her newest,...

The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy, Nicoletta Ceccoli

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Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack over her shoulder as she soundlessly steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all of those tears? Education Market: Aligns with National Curriculum Fantasy/Imagined Worlds category and...

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Aaron Poochigian, Sappho, Carol Ann Duffy

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More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a...

Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past by Carol Ann Duffy

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'Poetry, the poets here teach us, is language as life; not only a baton-like passing-on of tradition but a way of making the human immortal. With all their joys, jokes, passions, protests, loves and losses, the poems here prove that it is not only silence that poetry answers back'. Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty...

The Hat by Carol Ann Duffy

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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...

Adrian Henri: Selected and Unpublished by C. Marcangeli, Carol Ann Duffy

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This new collection showcases the work of the celebrated poet and painter Adrian Henri. Bringing together his most famous poems, alongside a never before published final collection and a selection of paintings, the book includes a foreword by Carol Ann Duffy and anecdotes from Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Brian...

Bibliography

Mrs. Dalloway by Carol Ann Duffy, Virginia Woolf

The World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

Selected Poems: Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

Hand in Hand: An Anthology of Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

The Oldest Girl in the World by Marketa Prachaticka, Carol Ann Duffy

Meeting Midnight by Carol Ann Duffy

More Grimm Tales by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Carol Ann Duffy, Tim Supple

Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

Underwater Farmyard by Carol Ann Duffy, Joel Stewart

Moon Zoo by Carol Ann Duffy, Joel Stewart

Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, Carol Ann Duffy

To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

New and Collected Poems for Children by Carol Ann Duffy

The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy, Nicoletta Ceccoli

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Aaron Poochigian, Sappho, Carol Ann Duffy

Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past by Carol Ann Duffy

The Hat by Carol Ann Duffy

Adrian Henri: Selected and Unpublished by C. Marcangeli, Carol Ann Duffy

J. K. Rowling

Stephenie Meyer

Stephen King