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.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780856463037 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856463035 |
| Title | Mean Time |
| Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 56 |
| 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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