Frost Fair
It is a snowy London day in the Great Winter of 1683. We follow our bold narrator as she explores 'the town on the Thames', a thousand tents and dancing fires lit on the frozen water with jubilant residents and lively festive revelry. All is a fete upon the ice as she sees jugglers, dancing bears, palm-readers and even a merry wedding. Her journey leads her to meet many new companions with whom to spend a starry night upon the river, where they sleep with no inkling of who will be looking down on them in the morning light . . . Carol Ann Duffy's new Christmas poem, Frost Fair, is inspired by the fairs held on the River Thames in London as it…
Mehr
CHF 14.50
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
L024:
Lieferbar in 24 Stunden
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: David De Las Heras (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-4817-1
- EAN: 9781509848171
- Produktnummer: 29869565
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Masse: H13.6 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.3 cm 111 g
- Gewicht: 111
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
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, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. Her other beautifully illustrated Christmas poems include Another Night Before Christmas, Mrs Scrooge, Wenceslas, Bethlehem, Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday and The Wren-Boys. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems, Rapture and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award.
99 weitere Werke von Carol Ann Duffy:
Bewertungen
Anmelden