Love
Carol Ann Duffy
64 pages
Synopsis
One of the English language’s best-loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her selection one new poem. It makes for a sequence that is sensual, stimulating, irresistible.
Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of languageTelegraph
Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itselfScotsman
Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation’s favourite living poetJeanette Winterson, author of Frankissstein