Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy

Synopsis

Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy

The poems in Carol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection range from
the dramatic monologues for which she is noted to love poems, which she
writes, Robert Nye remarked, 'as if she were the first to do so'.

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first
prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council
Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in
Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received
the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed
fourth collection 'Mean Time'. The anthologies she has edited include
'Anvil New Poets 2' and two for teenagers, 'I Wouldn't Thank You for a
Valentine' and 'Stopping for Death'. Her 'Selected Poems' is published by
Penguin; her most recent collections 'The World's Wife' and 'Feminine
Gospels', are published by Picador.

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