Synopsis
Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.
The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.
Behind every famous man is a great woman – and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection of feminist poems.
Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best, reissued as part of the Picador Collection.
Details
11 January 202496 pages
9781035038541Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Poignant, thoughtful, funny, rich and accessibleRuth Padel, Books of the Year, Guardian
These 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 dashSunday Telegraph
Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heartErica Wagner
The World's Wife is a joyous exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and historyGuardian
