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Carol A. Duffy

    Carol Ann Duffy je škótska poetka a dramatička, ktorej diela sa zaoberajú témami útlaku, rodu a násilia. Jej básne sú napísané prístupným jazykom, vďaka čomu si získali popularitu v školách a sú cenené pre svoju literárnu silu. Duffyová sa vo svojej práci často zameriava na témy, ktoré rezonujú so súčasným svetom, a jej osobitý štýl jej vyniesol uznanie ako významnej hlasateľke modernej poézie. Jej zbierky ukazujú schopnosť uchopiť zložité problémy a podať ich pútavým a zrozumiteľným spôsobom.

    The World's Wife
    The Hat
    Queen Munch and Queen Nibble
    The Princess Blankets
    1914: Poetry Remembers
    The Christmas Truce
    • The Christmas Truce

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem.

      The Christmas Truce
    • 1914: Poetry Remembers

      • 144 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania
      4,4(13)Ohodnotiť

      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 author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This book presents their choices.

      1914: Poetry Remembers
    • The Hat

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania

      In this delightful new collection of poetry for children, Carol Ann Duffy takes us on a mud-and-all ramble through sand, socks, songs and schoolrooms. Charming and witty, infectiously enjoyable, these poems take pleasure in the discovery of imaginative worlds, from the loneliness of ghosts and ghouls to a shopping trip by Manchunian cows.

      The Hat
    • The World's Wife

      • 96 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania
      4,2(262)Ohodnotiť

      In Carol Ann Duffy's latest collection of poems, the stories of famous men - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontious Pilate, King Kong - are presented from the perspective of the lesser-known wife.

      The World's Wife
    • Rapture

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania
      4,2(245)Ohodnotiť

      The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.

      Rapture
    • Carol Ann Duffy's twenty-first-century reworking of this Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination. Illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan, it's the perfect gift this Christmas.

      Another Night Before Christmas
    • Rats' Tales

      • 112 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania
      4,0(13)Ohodnotiť

      On Beasts and Beauties, on which Carol Ann Duffy and Melly Still also collaborated: 'The first night audience did not exit from the theatre, they hover-crafted out of it on a balloon of bliss.' Independent

      Rats' Tales
    • Everyman

      • 80 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania
      4,1(33)Ohodnotiť

      Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives.

      Everyman