Original Product The World's Wife By Carol Ann Duffy (UK Edition, Paperback)

Review QuotePoignant, thoughtful, funny, rich and accessibleReview QuoteThese thirty poems vibrate with intense colloquialisms, physicality, energy, freshness and cheek. Many of them are very funny... the best are inventive, subversive and written with great rhythmical and rhyming dashReview QuoteCarol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heartReview QuoteThe World's Wife is a joyous exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and historyReview QuoteDuffy takes a cheeky, subversive, no-nonsense swipe with a dish clout at the famous men of history and myth. They don't have a chance in hell of dodging her quick-witted wallop as she relays their stories from their spouse's points of viewReview QuoteIt sparkes with wit, intelligence and an impressive lightness of touch, while drawing on some weighty emotional experiences: loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, the fierceness of a mother's loveReview QuoteShe reveals the foibles of the great, the ghastly and the ordinary bloke and the sufferings of those closest to them. The result is a melange of history lesson, fairy-tale and modern-day domestic tragedy, with the occasional joke thrown in for good measure. . . Duffy's poetics are flawless - she never misses a beat, her pace is exhilarating, and her language is original and excitingReview QuoteThis book is going to be a hit, and can only consolidate Duffy's position as one of the most widely read British poets of her generation