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Mean Time

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These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate 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.

'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - Rose Tremain, Guardian

Critics Review

Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time
Guardian
Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself
Scotsman
Carol Ann Duffy is one of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry - any poetry - for years. Her project is both subtle and experimental... a contemporary woman poet whose poetic register reaches all the way from a subversive eroticism to a self-conscious regionalism...This new book contains wonderful poems, which extend her lyric range.
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Author Carol Ann Duffy
Narrator Carol Ann Duffy
Duration 1 hours and 10 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781509853434
Format Audiobook
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Genre Poetry, Poetry by individual poets
Availability GB, IE, US

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