Book description
Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem, and a
moving act of personal testimony, but what sets these poems apart is
Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions and transformations of
love - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation
and grief. Instead, Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning
complexity, showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful
episodes in our lives. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the
experience of most readers and will, ultimately, prove that poetry can
and should speak for us all.
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 and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and
E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize
for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.
