Collected Poems, page 33
With some surprise, I balance my small female skull in my hands. ref1
World is what you swim in, or dance, it is simple. ref1
Worth their salt, England’s white cliffs; ref1
Wounds in wood, where the wind grieves ref1
Write that the sun bore down on me, ref1
Writing it, I see how much I love the sound. ref1
Yes, I think a poem is a spell of kinds ref1
You come back, ref1
You could travel up the Blue Nile ref1
You get a shilling if you see it first. ref1
You must prepare your bosom for his knife, ref1
You run round the back to be in it again. ref1
You were dead, but we met, dreaming, ref1
Your last word was water, ref1
Your own ghost, you stand in dark rain ref1
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The World’s Wife
Feminine Gospels
New Selected Poems
Rapture
Mrs Scrooge
Love Poems
Another Night Before Christmas
The Bees
The Christmas Truce
Wenceslas
Bethlehem
Ritual Lighting
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday
The Wren-Boys
AS EDITOR
Hand in Hand
Answering Back
To the Moon
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was appointed DBE in 2015.
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