Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack over her shoulder as she soundlessly steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all of those tears?
Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack over her shoulder as she soundlessly steals th...
The Carol Singer's Carol is a song featured in The Manchester Carols, a modernization of the Christmas story with words by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and music by Sasha Johnson Manning. This piece is arranged for mixed voices, piano and optional glockenspiel accompaniment. The Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of contemporary composers and includes both lighter and more challenging contemporary works, offering a thrilling array of varied styles.
The Carol Singer's Carol is a song featured in The Manchester Carols, a modernization of the Christmas story with words by the Poet Laureate, Carol An...
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (The Guardian)
The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act of personal testimony. But what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love and read its transformations-infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation, and grief-as either redemptive...
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, "essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages" (The Guardian)
A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" (The Guardian)
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, and poems of political anger. There are elegies, too, for beloved friends and most movingly for the poet's mother. As...
A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" (The Guardian)
