The Wren-Boys
2015
First Published
3.63
Average Rating
48
Number of Pages
An old Irish legend has it that St Stephen was betrayed by a wrens song, and on St Stephens Day, boys hunt the wren and try to capture it by nightfall. On this December 26th, will the hunters succeed, or resort to subterfuge? Illustrated by Dermot Flynn.
Avg Rating
3.63
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123
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Author
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.
