Description
| Product ID: | 9781509852925 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Bees |
| Authors: | Author: Carol Ann Duffy DBE |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A critically acclaimed collection from Carol Ann Duffy, her first as Poet Laureate. <p>‘Swooningly glorious’ <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘Indisputably her best volume’ <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br><i>The Bees</i> is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and – most movingly – the poet’s own mother.<br><br> Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy’s subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge. In the end, Duffy’s point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. <i>The Bees</i>, at once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-09-21 |
