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Carol A. Duffy

    Carol Ann Duffyová je skotská básnířka a dramatička, jejíž tvorba se zabývá útlakem, genderem a násilím. Její básně jsou psány přístupným jazykem, díky čemuž si získaly popularitu ve školách a jsou ceněny pro svou literární sílu. Duffyová se ve své práci často zaměřuje na témata, která rezonují se současným světem, a její osobitý styl jí vynesl uznání jako významné hlasatelce moderní poezie. Její sbírky ukazují schopnost uchopit složité problémy a podat je poutavým a srozumitelným způsobem.

    The World's Wife
    The Hat
    Queen Munch and Queen Nibble
    The Princess Blankets
    1914: Poetry Remembers
    The Christmas Truce
    • The Christmas Truce

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení
      4,6(7)Ohodnotit

      Following in the tradition of 'Mrs Scrooge' and 'Another Night Before Christmas', Carol Ann Duffy offers us another charming and original festive poem.

      The Christmas Truce
    • 1914: Poetry Remembers

      • 144 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      4,4(13)Ohodnotit

      The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This book presents their choices.

      1914: Poetry Remembers
    • The Hat

      • 80 stránek
      • 3 hodiny čtení
      4,0(6)Ohodnotit

      In this delightful new collection of poetry for children, Carol Ann Duffy takes us on a mud-and-all ramble through sand, socks, songs and schoolrooms. Charming and witty, infectiously enjoyable, these poems take pleasure in the discovery of imaginative worlds, from the loneliness of ghosts and ghouls to a shopping trip by Manchunian cows.

      The Hat
    • The World's Wife

      • 96 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
      4,2(262)Ohodnotit

      In Carol Ann Duffy's latest collection of poems, the stories of famous men - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontious Pilate, King Kong - are presented from the perspective of the lesser-known wife.

      The World's Wife
    • Rapture

      • 80 stránek
      • 3 hodiny čtení
      4,2(245)Ohodnotit

      The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.

      Rapture
    • Carol Ann Duffy's twenty-first-century reworking of this Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination. Illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan, it's the perfect gift this Christmas.

      Another Night Before Christmas
    • Rats' Tales

      • 112 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení
      4,0(13)Ohodnotit

      On Beasts and Beauties, on which Carol Ann Duffy and Melly Still also collaborated: 'The first night audience did not exit from the theatre, they hover-crafted out of it on a balloon of bliss.' Independent

      Rats' Tales
    • Everyman

      • 80 stránek
      • 3 hodiny čtení
      4,1(33)Ohodnotit

      Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. But Death is close behind, and time is running out. One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives.

      Everyman