The World's Wife

by Carol Ann Duffy

This collection of poems about the women forgotten by history is witty, intelligent and funny, but it also tackles serious themes such as loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, and domestic tragedy.

' These 30 poems vibrate with intense colloquialisms, physicality, energy, freshness and cheek. Many of them are very funny... the best are inventive, subversive and written with great rhythmical and rhyming dash.' Sunday Telegraph

Publisher: Picador

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