Jubilee Lines

Author(s): Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign. An all star line up - which includes such celebrated writers as Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott, alongside some of the newest young talent around - address a moment or event from their chosen year, be it of personal or political significance or both. Through a series of specially commissioned poems, "Jubilee Lines" offers a unique portrayal of the country and times in which we have lived since 1953, culminating in an essential portrait of today: the way we speak, the way we chronicle, the way we love and fight, the way we honour and remember. Brilliantly introduced by Carol Ann Duffy, "Jubilee Lines" is an unforgettable commemoration: not only a monarch's reign but of a way of life.

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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and an all star line up of poets come together to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011). In 2009 she was appointed Poet Laureate.

General Fields

  • : 9780571277056
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : 0.238
  • : April 2012
  • : 186mm X 143mm X 17mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : July 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Carol Ann Duffy
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 821.008
  • : 160