Carol Ann Duffy

For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas, transporting them in one year to a seventeenth-century festival on the frozen Thames, in another to Western Front to witness the famous 1914 truce, then to a sweet winter’s night in the South of France with Pablo Picasso and his small dog. These ten much-loved poems are gathered together for the first time in this compendium.

'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - Guardian

In this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique bond between parent and child. Empty Nest contemplates growing old, the love of a parent, the everyday of family life, as well as poems that explore darker terrains - grief, loss and estrangement. Some of our favourite poets are collected here, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage, Shakespeare, Imtiaz Dharker, Seamus Heaney and Don Paterson.

These poems are by turns wry, moving, profound, funny, melancholic and wise; they will console and comfort those suddenly facing a house that may be much cleaner, but is also much quieter, than it once was. There is something here for every reader to treasure.

'Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language' - Telegraph

A celebration in poetry of the female form and condition drawing on historical, biblical and fantastical visions of women’s identity.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets to write about each of the 60 years of Her Majesty's reign.

A poetry collection that mixes the funny, the tender and the ridiculous.

This collection spans twenty years of Carol Ann Duffy's poetry. It takes us across continents and into the minds of babies, psychopaths and giggling schoolgirls, amongst others. It is a world that is both strange yet familiar.

Meet Pilate's wife, Mrs Aesop, Anne Hathaway, Delilah and more in these poems about the women behind famous men! Contains some offensive language.

Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as Poet Laureate shows her full poetic range. It contains drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, and elegies, amongst others.

A short collection of seasonal verse by poets such as Walter de la Mare and E.E. Cummings.