Tag Archives: carol ann duffy

A Candle Shapes the Memory

Posted on December 31, 2024 by impeus

We used to have a beautiful leather suitcase full of family photographs. When I think of photographs – the printed 4*6″ photographs you’d collect in a paper envelope with the negatives included in a pocket inside – I always think … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month 2012. 30: War Poetry

Posted on April 30, 2012 by impeus

I used to read a lot of war poetry. It was Siegfried Sassoon’s fault first of all:      Suicide in the Trenches      I knew a simple soldier boy      Who grinned at life in empty joy,      Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month 2012. 16: The Sari

Posted on April 16, 2012 by impeus

I mentioned yesterday Duffy’s anthology Out of Fashion. Like Answering Back, it invites contemporary poets to submit a poem on a theme, and choose a poem on the same theme by a poet from another time or culture. However this … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month 2012. 15: Cousin Coat

Posted on April 15, 2012 by impeus

I took two books downstairs this morning to flick through and find a poem to share. They were Sean O’Brien’s The Drowned Book, which won both the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot prize in 2007, and another anthology edited … Continue reading →

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Poetry month 2012: 8. A Bad Princess

Posted on April 8, 2012 by impeus

I’m not a fan of children’s poetry (I tend to find it stupid and pointless), and I’m not really a fan of princess stories either. The thing about princess stories is that they are ubiquitous and disturbing. Why was it … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month 2012. 2: Little Red-Cap

Posted on April 2, 2012 by impeus

I like fairytale poems. Do you know of any? Let me know, I’d love to look them up. I’ve shared two before, conveniently in the same post as they are both by Moniza Alvi. One refers to Little Red Riding … Continue reading →

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Lent 37: Answering Back

Posted on March 29, 2012 by impeus

Answering Back, an anthology edited by Carol Ann Duffy, is a fantastic idea for a varied collection of poetry. It is subtitled as “Living poets reply to the poetry of the past” – where a range of poets are invited … Continue reading →

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Lent 36: Four Women Poets – on schools and poetry

Posted on March 28, 2012 by impeus

I got this book, Four Women Poets as someone’s unwanted cast-off. It features Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and Fleur Adcock. I don’t like it. It feels like poetry for school kids. It probably is. I love Duffy, … Continue reading →

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Lent 12: Winter’s Tale

Posted on March 4, 2012 by impeus

I have all of Duffy’s adult collections, several of her books of children’s poetry, and a lot of her edited anthologies. My first taste of her work was from her fifth collection The World’s Wife, which to this day is … Continue reading →

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Poetry Month 18 – Adultery

Posted on April 25, 2011 by impeus

Having shared Sophie Hannah’s Rubbish at Adultery earlier this month, Quiet Riot Girl mentioned that she liked this poem: Adultery by Carol Ann Duffy. And goodness she’s right, it has some fantastic imagery in it. Go read it first, then … Continue reading →

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