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THE TRUE LOVE POET
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Feminine Gospels
by Carol Ann Duffy
Picador, pounds 12
It was the spring of 1985 and I was sitting on my workroom floor
reading my way through a small avalanche of typescripts for an
anthology of new British poetry I had been asked to edit by PEN, the
international association of poets, essayists, and novelists. Wading
through the 2,441 pieces of stuff resembling verse they had provided
for me was not my idea of a good way to spend an April weekend, but
then I opened th...
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Your LIFE: THE SICK QUEEN; REAL STORIES POETRY CORNER With Carol Ann Duffy ONE of Britain's most successful female poets, selects a poem for women and discusses its meaning...(Features)
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; Byline: Carol Ann Duffy By FRANCES CORNFORD I hear my children come. They trample with their feet, Fetched from their play to kiss my thin-boned hands lying on the sheet, Fresh as young colts with every field before them, With gazing apple-faces. Can it be this body bore them? (This poor body like
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; Byline: BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Not there to see midsummer's midnight rose open and bloom, me, or there when the river dressed in turquoise under the moon, you; not there when stones softened, opened, showed the fossils they held or there, us, when the dark sky fell to the earth to gather its smell. Not
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; Byline: BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Not there to see midsummer's midnight rose open and bloom, me, or there when the river dressed in turquoise under the moon, you; not there when stones softened, opened, showed the fossils they held or there, us, when the dark sky fell to the earth to gather its smell. Not
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