The World's Wife
Carol Ann Duffy
2000 Nominee
T. S. Eliot Prize
1999 Nominee
Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection
11 January 2024
978103503854196 pages
Synopsis
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 counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.
Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.
Poignant, thoughtful, funny, rich and accessibleRuth Padel, Books of the Year, Guardian
These thirty 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 dashSunday Telegraph
Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heartErica Wagner
