Off the Shelf
A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse
In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops - the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basement of forgotten books to the shelves of a cramped Welsh arcade, from the poetry corner of the local bookstore to the last bookshop standing in a post-apocalyptic world, these are poems that pay tribute to the places and volumes that house the stories we treasure.With thirty poems from Carol Ann Duffy, new Scottish Makar Jackie Kay, former Nat…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-2758-9
- EAN: 9781509827589
- Produktnummer: 19698035
- Verlag: UK Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B16.3 cm x D1.3 cm 186 g
- Auflage: Main Market Ed.
- Gewicht: 186
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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, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was appointed DBE in 2015.
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