A Laureates Choice 101 Poems For Children Chosen By Carol Ann Duffy

A Laureates Choice 101 Poems For Children Chosen By Carol Ann Duffy

by Carol Ann Duffy
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Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, has chosen her favorite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett.

First published
2012
Publishers
Pan Macmillan
Language
English

Carol Ann Duffy

About Carol Ann Duffy

Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009.She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold the position.Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools....

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