Download or read book Selected Poems written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Penguin Global. This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Poemscontains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed volumes, Standing Female Nude, Selling Manhattan, The Other Countryand Mean Time(winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award), as well as six poems from the later The World's Wife. 'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar. Highbrow and lowbrow, readers love her' -The Guardian 'Carol Ann Duffy is a very, very bright, appealing, clever, ingenious, approachable and . . . heartwarming writer. She's a Good Thing, capital G, capital T, one of the poets I most enjoy reading' -Andrew Motion