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101 Poems for Children: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Children's
A beautiful poetry collection chosen by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett.
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry
101 Poems for Children: A Laureate's Choice is a stunning collection of classic and modern verse chosen by the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Full of gorgeous black and white artwork from the multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett, this book is a delight for children of all ages and is ...Show more
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Fiction
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Grea ...Show more
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the Grea ...Show more
Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Picture Books
The Night Before Christmas retold for the twenty-first century - this beautifully illustrated story by one of Britain's best loved poets is the perfect book for Christmas On the night before Christmas, a child in a house, as the whole family slept, behaved just like a mouse, and crept on soft toes down ...Show more
Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy (ed)
Category: Poetry
'Poetry, the poets here teach us, is language as life; not only a baton-like passing-on of tradition but a way of making the human immortal. With all their joys, jokes, passions, protests, loves and losses, the poems here prove that it is not only silence that poetry answers back'. Carol Ann Duffy has i ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice' its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search f ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search ...Show more
Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry & Plays
Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British Poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her f ...Show more
Collected Poems – Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold more than one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. ...Show more
Doris the Giant by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Fiction
Doris is a lonely giant who lives above the world but never feels she's part of it. One day her life changes when she meets another giant, called Boris.
Elegies by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry
An anthology of elegies by former UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.Grey: Elegies will contain numerous fan favourites as well as a brand new poem on the theme of death.