Empty Nest - Poems for Families

A stunning anthology of poems edited by Carol Ann Duffy on that special bond between parent and child through life, featuring some of our most beloved poets.

About the author

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, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 2009-2019. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year's Honours list.

Summary

A stunning anthology of poems edited by Carol Ann Duffy on that special bond between parent and child through life, featuring some of our most beloved poets.

Foreword

A stunning anthology of poems edited by Carol Ann Duffy on that special bond between parent and child through life, featuring some of our most beloved poets.

Additional text

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

Product details

• Authors: Carol Ann Duffy, Duffy Carol Ann
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529028690
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-2869-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Women Authors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Intergenerational Relationships, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues