Mean Time Carol Ann Duffy

Name: Mean Time By Carol Ann Duffy
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Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

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Dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. This title includes poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

Mean Time Summary

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

The author is the winner of the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 1993. In her fourth collection, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

About Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection 'Mean Time'. The anthologies she has edited include 'Anvil New Poets 2' and two for teenagers, 'I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine' and 'Stopping for Death'. Her 'Selected Poems' is published by Penguin; her most recent collections 'The World's Wife' and 'Feminine Gospels' are published by Picador.

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Sku

GOR001493177

ISBN 13

9780856463037

ISBN 10

0856463035

Title

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

Author

Carol Ann Duffy

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Carcanet Press Ltd

Year published

19970527

Number of pages

Prizes

Winner of Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1993 Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 1993 Winner of Forward Poetry Prize 1993 Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 1992

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