Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A selection of one-hundred poems chosen by Laureate Carol Ann Duffy to mark last year's World War One Armistice centenary, including poems from other conflicts and cultures that chime with the event. Zusammenfassung The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Ann Duffy
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780571347087
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34708-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets)