Rapture, Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations—infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancor, separation and grief—as simply redemptive or destructive/5(). · The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its . Rapture is a series of interconnected poems about a single relationship, and the themes which Duffy encompasses are wide and surprising. A rich story weaves its way through. As ever, her turns of phrase are beautiful, and I adored her use of nature imagery, and the way in which this was woven into/5(K).
The twentieth Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, whose ten years in post ended in May , knows what it is like to fall in love. Her collection, Rapture, traced in fifty-two poems the life-changing impact of a relationship from its glorious beginning to a devastating conclusion. It is the most powerful piece of work that she has produced. Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold this position. Continuing with modern poetry, this week's poem is 'Text' by Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy is the current poet laureate and her reflections on modern relationships are witty and relatable, whilst carrying an element of despondency with what we consider romance in this day and age. 'Text' is part of her collection Rapture, which reflects.
A Scot, Carol Ann Duffy is a poet, playwright, children’s author, and anthology editor. Her first collection was published in Some 10 collections later, she won the T.S. Eliot Prize for “Rapture” (). “Rapture” is a remarkable collection of love poems documenting the rise and eventual fall of a love affair. Rapture is a collection of poetry written by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate from to It marks her 37th work of poetry and has been described as "intensely personal, emotional and elegiac, and markedly different from Duffy’s other works" by the British Council. Rapture was first published in in the UK by Picador, and in in the US, by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Rapture received the T.S. Eliot Prize. Rapture is a series of interconnected poems about a single relationship, and the themes which Duffy encompasses are wide and surprising. A rich story weaves its way through. As ever, her turns of phrase are beautiful, and I adored her use of nature imagery, and the way in which this was woven into.
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