New and Collected Poems for Children

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.' ( Guardian ) This stellar edition of her poems brings together work from her four award-winning collections for children, and sprinkles in a generous helping of new poems to match. From her dazzlingly debut Meeting Midnight through to her newest, brightest poems, Carol Ann Duffy's writing for younger readers has always bubbled with wit and humour, intelligence and affection, and introduced us to many strange and wonderful characters along the way. Among the enchanting voices to be heard are those of the Loch Ness Monster's husband, the oldest girl in the world and a herd of cows on a shopping trip to Manchester.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carol Ann Duffy
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780571337309
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33730-9
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Themen: Kinder- und Jugendbücher > Vorlesebücher, Märchen, Sagen, Reime, Lieder; Schule und Lernen > Schulbücher Allgemeinbildende Schulen; Interest age: from c 9 years, Reading Age: From C 9 Years, Poetry (Children's/Ya), Children’s, Teenage & Educational