Frost Fair
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Frost Fair
By (Author) Carol Ann Duffy
Illustrated by David De Las Heras
Pan Macmillan
Picador
31st October 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.92
Physical Properties
Hardback
48
Width 129mm, Height 137mm, Spine 17mm
168g
Description
Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for all book lovers.
Reviews
Duffys spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *
Author Bio
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. Her other beautifully illustrated Christmas poems include Another Night Before Christmas, Mrs Scrooge, Wenceslas, Bethlehem, Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday and The Wren-Boys. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems, Rapture and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award.
