Feminine Gospels
08 February 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity.
Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in...
Details
08 February 202480 pages
9781035038565Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Carol Ann Duffy is a poet of skill, talent and great heartErica Wagner, author of Ariel's Gift and Mary and Mr Eliot
Nobody is ever going to need to be told how to enjoy a Carol Ann Duffy poem . . . She is an inspired reinterpreter of myth and a fertile creator of fables of her ownThe Evening Standard
Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation’s favourite living poetJeanette Winterson, author of Frankissstein
