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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Carcanet Press Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780856463099

RRP: £8.95

PAGES: 64

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 30, 1998

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Standing Female Nude

This outstanding first collection introduced Carol Ann Duffy’s impressive gifts and the broad range of her interests and style. The poems are fresh, skilful, passionate.

Reviews of Standing Female Nude

'A clarity, a mixture of charm and truthfulness which breaks the windows of perception in new ways altogether… a book that marks the debut of a genuine and original poet'Robert Nye, The Times

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Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her awards include first prize in the 1983 National Poetry Competition; three Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Eric Gregory, Somerset Maugham and Dylan Thomas Awards in Britain and a 1995 Lannan Literary Award in the USA. In 1993 she received the Forward Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award for her acclaimed fourth collection ‘Mean Time’. The anthologies she has edited include ‘Anvil New Poets 2’ and two for teenagers, ‘I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine’ and ‘Stopping for Death’. Her ‘Selected Poems’ is published by Penguin.