Nature
By (Author) Carol Ann Duffy
Pan Macmillan
Picador
11th July 2023
2nd March 2023
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world
821.92
Hardback
64
Width 118mm, Height 186mm, Spine 16mm
126g
One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Green: Natural World Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged chronologically, Duffy also adds to her selection one wholly new poem.
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, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 2009-2019. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year's Honours list.