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Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems

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SELECTED POEMS is a collection of poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed novels: STANDING FEMALE NUDE, SELLING MANHATTAN, THE OTHER COUNTRY and MEAN TIME (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award). It is read by the author - the first time she's recorded her work as an audiobook.

Critics Review

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
'Not only a fresh voice but a dexterity with language, that glorious juggling which poets sometimes achieve with a sense of surprise even to themselve s’ Elizabeth Jennings, INDEPENDENT
A genuine and original poet
Robert Nye, THE TIMES
Author Carol Ann Duffy
Narrator Carol Ann Duffy
Duration 2 hours and 8 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405502580
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Literary studies: poetry and poets
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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