The Wren-Boys
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Wren-Boys
By (Author) Carol Ann Duffy
Illustrated by Dermot Flynn
Pan Macmillan
Picador
5th November 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Physical Properties
Hardback
48
Width 129mm, Height 137mm, Spine 14mm
128g
Description
Following Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday, The Christmas Truce and Another Night Before Christmas, Carol Ann Duffy continues her annual tradition of writing a delightful and original Christmas poem. This festive poem is about the Wren Boys of Ireland and their traditional celebration of St. Stephen's Day. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Dermot Flynn, The Wren-Boys is a covetable little hardback and the perfect stocking-filler.
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 Christmas Truce. 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.
