Some of these poems have previously appeared in the following publications: Ambit, Bête Noire, Critical Quarterly, First and Always (Faber), Foolscap, the Guardian, Neighbours (Peterloo), the New Statesman, The Orange Dove of Fiji (Hutchinson), Poetry Review, the Rialto, Slow Dancer, Smoke, Soho Square (Bloomsbury), the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement and Vogue. Others have been broadcast on BBC Radio.

The Other Country

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. She was appointed DBE in 2015.

Also by Carol Ann Duffy

Selling Manhattan

Standing Female Nude

Mean Time

The World’s Wife

Feminine Gospels

New Selected Poems

Rapture

Mrs Scrooge

Love Poems

Another Night Before Christmas

The Bees

The Christmas Truce

Wenceslas

Bethlehem

Ritual Lighting

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday

Collected Poems

The Wren-Boys

The King of Christmas

AS EDITOR

Hand in Hand

Answering Back

To the Moon

Off the Shelf

Copyright page

First published 1990 by Anvil Press Poetry, London

First published by Picador 2010

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