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The World's Wife
The World's Wife: Poems | Carol Ann Duffy
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Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me, strayfrom home.So better by far for me if you were stone.--from "Medusa"Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in this collection of poems written from the perspectives of the wives, sisters, or girlfris of famous -- and infamous -- male personages. Carol Ann Duffy is a master at drawing on myth and history, then subverting them in a vivid and surprising way to create poems that have the pull of the past and the crack of the contemporary.
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RaeLovesToRead
The World's Wife: Poems | Carol Ann Duffy
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Borrowed from a friend. I definitely appreciate Carol Ann Duffy more now than I did when we had to study her at school.

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TrishB
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#poetrymatters #bridge
From the tagged collection a poem called. Mrs Kong, a funny, sarcy, clever collection of poems.

charl08 Love this collection! 4y
TheSpineView Excellant choice! 😍😊🌞 4y
Cathythoughts 👍🏻✨✨✨ 4y
TrishB @charl08 it‘s wonderful, funny and brilliant 👍🏻 4y
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Lindy
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Saw a great adaptation of this the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival yesterday. We dug out our old copy from an out-of-the-way bookshelf to reread it afterwards. A witty collection. 💜

charl08 Such a great collection! I lent my copy and never got it back...😡 5y
Lindy @charl08 😭 5y
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Weaponxgirl
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#booksandvinyl there‘s a great part in the Kray sisters poem where they lean on Sinatra to sing in their club and of course it‘s Nancy not frank.
This collection is wonderful, fairytales, myths, feminist and snarky.
This is one I‘m going to have to buy myself, I love it that much and it‘s a great start to poetry month.

Leftcoastzen Great album cover! Nancy looks fierce! 6y
Weaponxgirl @Leftcoastzen it a album I forget I own periodically and then when I remember it again it gets played nonstop for days. My poor neighbours 6y
TrishB Great description 👍🏻 one of my fav collections too! 6y
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Weaponxgirl @TrishB any other faves in this sort of vein? I‘m hooked now! 6y
TrishB Have you read any other Duffy? Rapture is amazing, as is Sincerity. 6y
Weaponxgirl @TrishB not yet but this collection has put it high on my to do list. I‘ll look for those ones in my library first 😊 6y
DivineDiana Love the album cover! 6y
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TrishB
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#tales #poetrymatters
One of the funniest collection of poems ever 😁 funny, sarcastic and clever.

SW-T 😂😂😂 6y
Cathythoughts Very good 👏🏻👏🏻 6y
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andrew61
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#winterwonderland #marysboychild
Gone for carol ann duffy's Mrs Pilate poem.
A great description of her impressions of the man jesus. 'My God.His eyes were eyes to die for '

Cathythoughts That‘s some quote !!!!! ♥️ 6y
TrishB I love this collection! 6y
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TrishB
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#young #poetrymatters
This one from ‘Little Red Cap‘. This is an amazing collection of poems - I love it, funny, sarcastic and feminist!

Cathythoughts I love this ... I think the woods are magical always & especially when you are young ❤️ 6y
TrishB I love ‘birds are the uttered thoughts of trees...‘ 💕 @Cathythoughts 5 days in - still no Plath.... (edited) 6y
Cathythoughts You are flying it ... I hope she gets a few lines in at some stage .... I really want to hear her now ... ❤️ 6y
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TrishB @Cathythoughts I‘ve looked ahead and will be bursting on a couple of days! So maybe then! 6y
LazyDays I've been really enjoying your choices. This one is intense but I like it 👏 6y
LazyDays 5 days and strong 😆 6y
TrishB @LazyDays it‘s so tempting to just go to Plath first - but trying other books initially this time round. 6y
batsy This does have a Plathian tone to it, in a way! 💜 6y
LazyDays If you want to do all Plath go for it. If you want to try new poets I support you!💗💗 You've been pocsting some great stuff 👌 6y
TrishB @batsy I find Duffy can pull off a bit of Plath when she wants - but she has a wider range - probably as she has a longer career! 6y
TrishB @LazyDays maybe all Plath next month 😁 6y
LazyDays That would be a fun challenge! 😊 6y
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TrishB
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#living #poetrymatters
From the tagged book and poem Mrs Quasimodo - this is a great selection of poems. Funny and sarcastic.

TheAnitaAlvarez Love Carol Ann Duffy! I‘ve just ordered this one and I‘m waiting for it to arrive any day now 6y
Lindy Thanks for posting this. I love CAD and I love this book too. 💜 6y
TrishB @TheAnitaAlvarez you‘ll love this one👍🏻 6y
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TrishB @Lindy she‘s awesome 👍🏻 I love the sarcasm and feminism in this collection. 6y
Lindy @TrishB When Duffy was at the Vancouver Writers Fest a number of years ago, my friend Kathy laughed so hard and loud that we could hear her laughter on the audio recording of the event later. 😁 6y
TrishB @Lindy that‘s awesome 👍🏻 and what a great recommendation for the poems 😁 6y
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andrew61
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#NUYear #PoetryandPower
From the first English female poet laureate, and what can be a more powerful a statement than that, a succinct poem which perhaps reflects on my earlier post on the problems with masculinity.

MayJasper Excellent. Thanks for sharing 7y
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Louise Ha! Brilliant! 😂 7y
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Graciouswarriorprincess
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Spine poetry. #24in48

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dixi_e
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Jan. 13 #LitsyPoetry365 One of my all-time favourite poets. I'll forever be thankful to my friend and colleague who invited me to her reading in Mexico. Her feminist views, word play, creative perspectives, varied structures and downright brilliance make her a woman I look to for inspiration and courage. Duffy's authorial prowess is on full display in this tongue-in-cheek poem.

shawnmooney Lol! Love it!! 8y
dixi_e @shawnmooney it's a fun one! 🤣 8y
Lindy ❤️Carol Ann Duffy ❤️ 8y
dixi_e @Lindy YES! 8y
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half_book_and_co
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Mehso-so

The poetry in this collection is definitely well crafted, witty and intelligent. I love the idea of the overall theme to look at wives of famous men (be it mythological, historical etc.). But in the end I felt there were also limits to the approach (at least in the way Duffy took it on) which kept the whole collection rather heteronormative. (Also the idea that good sex is rather experienced with the 'bad' men was at best boring).

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half_book_and_co
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charl08 Love this collection. 8y
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Verity
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I'm not a big reader of poetry - and I need a study guide for some of these - but I loved this in Carol Ann Duffy's collection of poems about wives and women.

Lindy Carol Ann Duffy 💜💜💜 8y
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