I have been a fan of Carol Ann Duffy’s for some years now; she is a wonderful poet, whose work always speaks to me.

It is not merely a desire to encapsulate women, but a desire to press the issue of better understanding women. Part of Duffy's talent - besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety - is her ventriloquism . I sat down in the library to read some of the books I'd already chosen, but this one caught my eye and attention somehow, sitting on a shelf just to my right. It's wonderfully affectionate and quirky, and becoming part of the frame of the narrative and built into the blocks of stanzas is the marvelous line "Bad words ran in her head like mice.Some said/ she turned into a cloud/ and floated home,/ falling there like rain, or tears,/ upon her husband’s face. All in all, pretty good, took a while to warm up to, and I'm unsure that I would have understood a lot of the poems if I hadn't been studying it in class.

Part of Duffy's talent - besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety - is her ventriloquism. I wish my brain was advanced enough to understand every poem I read but then again, that would take away a lot of the magic. In "Beautiful", a series of women appear to be manifestations of the same being, defined only by the ability to excite the desire of men. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.With that though, the relief is quickly destroyed by shame at the modern world’s pressures for even the everyday woman to look a certain way; much like “Beauty” dealt with famous figures. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were. An anorexic shrivels like Alice until she is blown away as a seed, to nestle at length in the stomach of a gloriously self-indulgent eater.

This is all done through subject and form as a way of enlightening the reader into very current issues in the modern world.Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools. I found the poetry lay mainly in the asides: a teacher on a cold night, watching her own breath, a moment of loving abandon, an evocation of "The world like Quink outside". In Feminine Gospels, the woman – in all of her many shapes and forms – has been presented as the oracle. The reader is given an extensive list of characters in “The Laughter” which represent dynamic women in varying situations of school, work, and personal life. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and.

For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. There is a tragedy written in “The Diet” that echoes that of the modern woman, and the final three lines of the poem “inside the Fat / Woman now, / trying to get out” helps the reader to truly examine how our world defines beauty. After witnessing a woman waste away to almost nothing, being swept by the wind there is almost this relief when we realize it is merely an inner desire. I can’t really describe the collection as much other than an ordinary white feminist poetry collection, which makes sense because Duffy is a white woman talking about her personal issues in the collection which the majority of other women can relate to.The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. Sports is an important consideration, as well as music; both of which there have been male and female seperation. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief . 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. She really is a storyteller/chronicler of women of today and I can't believe I haven't discovered her before.