Jubilee Lines
2012
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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-01 160 English Faber & Faber To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth IIs accession to the throne. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majestys reign.An all star line up - which includes such celebrated writers as Simon Armitage. Gillian Clarke. Wendy Cope. Geoffrey Hill. Jackie Kay. Michael Longley. Andrew Motion. Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott. alongside some of the newest young talent around - address a moment or event from their chosen year. be it of personal or political significance or both.Through a series of specially commissioned poems. Jubilee Lines offers a unique portrayal of the country and times in which we have lived since 1953. culminating in an essential portrait of the way we speak...
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Carol Ann Duffy
Author · 59 books
Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009. She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold this position. Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.
