Description

One of the English language’s best-loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her selection one new poem. It makes for a sequence that is sensual, stimulating, irresistible.

Publisher Review

Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language * Telegraph * Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself * Scotsman * Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation's favourite living poet * Jeanette Winterson, author of Frankissstein * Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time * Guardian *