The World's Wife
13 July 2017
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.
Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.
The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.
Behind every famous man is a great woman – and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.
Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.
Details
13 July 2017
93 pages
Carol Ann Duffy
9781509853403
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
“Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heart”Erica Wagner
“Poignant, thoughtful, funny, rich and accessible”Ruth Padel, Books of the Year, Guardian
“It sparkes with wit, intelligence and an impressive lightness of touch, while drawing on some weighty emotional experiences: loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, the fierceness of a mother's love”Christina Patterson, Independent
“This book is going to be a hit, and can only consolidate Duffy's position as one of the most widely read British poets of her generation”Robert Crawford, Herald
