The Bees
21 September 2017
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Swooningly glorious’ The Times
‘Indisputably her best volume’ Sunday Times
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and – most movingly – the poet’s own mother.
Woven and weaving through the...
Details
21 September 2017
96 pages
9781509852925
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Beautiful and moving poetry for the real worldJeanette Winterson, Guardian
Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of languageSunday Telegraph
Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itselfScotsman