Carol Ann Duffy: The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy: The World's WifeThis unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age old mythology. Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman and from the quick tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her

a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden

which shocked audiences in Europe and the U

rational thinking

Fermor is famously still at work on the concluding part of his trilogy

who helped finish the film after his father’s death

by taking the radical step of removing the plinth and placing his work directly on the ground not only changed our relationship with the artwork

His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art

In Cities of the Plain

via plates of pasta

and Girls in their Married Bliss - published as a trilogy with a new foreword by Eimear McBride

the place where they renewed their commitment and where Springsteen remembered that he was a rock & roll star

Lorde's triumphant sophomore album