******** OUT OF PRINT ***********

This interim selection from a popular and award-winning poet presents new and uncollected work, including poems written since her award-winning collection `Mean Time’ (1993), poems from `The World’s Wife’ and poems for children.

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.