Mean Time

Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our timeGuardian

Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itselfScotsman

Carol Ann Duffy is one of the freshest and bravest talents to emerge in British poetry - any poetry - for years. Her project is both subtle and experimental... a contemporary woman poet whose poetic register reaches all the way from a subversive eroticism to a self-conscious regionalism...This new book contains wonderful poems, which extend her lyric range.Independent