The World's Wife
15 December 2014Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.
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...
Details
15 December 201496 pages
9781447275251Imprint: 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
