Hannah Kent on Carol Ann Duffy's poetry

Hannah Kent explains why she chose 'If I Was Dead' by Carol Ann Duffy as this week's Friday Poem.

Author of The Good People and Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, shares why she has chosen 'If I Was Dead' by Carol Ann Duffy as this week's Friday Poem.

'If I Was Dead' can be read in Carol Ann Duffy's 2005 collection, Rapture.

Rapture

Book cover for Rapture

'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose Tremain


Rapture is a love story told through poetry by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.