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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Dumb was as good as dead; better to utter
Bees
Last Post
Echo
Scheherazade
Big Ask
Ariel
Politics
The Falling Soldier
Mrs Schofield’s GCSE
Poetry
Achilles
The Shirt
Oxfam
The Female Husband
Bees are the batteries of orchards, gardens, guard them …
Virgil’s Bees
Rings
Invisible Ink
Atlas
John Barleycorn
Hive
Nile
Water
Drams
Moniack Mhor
The English Elms
The Counties
The White Horses
Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds
What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
The Woman in the Moon
Parliament
Telling the Bees
Dorothy Wordsworth is Dead
Cockermouth and Workington
Spell
Simon Powell
Cold
The Bee Carol
Decembers
Winter’s Tale
Snow
Crunch
A Goldfish
Out of the silence, I fancied I heard the bronze buzz of a bee …
Music
Orta St Giulio
The Dead
Sung
At Ballynahinch
New Vows
Leda
Valentine’s
The Human Bee
Drone
Gesture
Passing-Bells
Premonitions
A Rare Bee
Also by Carol Ann Duffy
About the Author
Copyright
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Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 by Carol Ann Duffy
Part-opening art copyright © 2011 by StephenRaw.com
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Originally published in 2011 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, Great Britain
Published in the United States in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American paperback edition, 2014
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