Carol Ann Duffy

¿Qué hace el ladrón de lágrimas de las lágrimas que roba?Un cálido y emotivo cuento ilustrado que nos presenta una nueva manera de compartir las emociones de niños y niñas. Cada noche, justo después de la cena y antes de la hora de acostarse, la Ladrona de Lágrimas se echa a la espalda su saco impermeable y plateado y, sigilosamente, roba las lágrimas de los niños que lloran.Pero, ¿qué hace con todas esas lágrimas?¿Y por qué las lágrimas de verdadera tristeza son las más especiales de todas?

¿Qué hace el ladrón de lágrimas de las lágrimas que roba?Un cálido y emotivo cuento ilustrado que nos presenta una nueva manera de compartir las emociones de niños y niñas. Cada noche, justo después de la cena y antes de la hora de acostarse, la Ladrona de Lágrimas se echa a la espalda su saco impermeable y plateado y, sigilosamente, roba las lágrimas de los niños que lloran.Pero, ¿qué hace con todas esas lágrimas?¿Y por qué las lágrimas de verdadera tristeza son las más especiales de todas?

Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time. 'Mysterious yet accessible; both truthful and beautiful; this selection is a paean to the power of love and of language's ability to capture it' Sunday Telegraph 'Carol Ann Duffy is a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire, devotion and despair ...from distant yearning to wild new passion through absence, boredom and infidelity, to break-ups, grief and solitude ...As always, she manages the rare feat of building on traditions, forebears, allusions while stirring and shaking the emotions with muscular, unpretentious force' Independent

BE TERRIFIED. IT'S YOU I LOVE, PERFECT MAN, GREEK GOD, MY OWN; BUT I KNOW YOU'LL GO, BETRAY ME, STRAY FROM HOME. SO BETTER BY FAR FOR ME IF YOU WERE STONE. --FROM MEDUSA STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL AND HAUN

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Supone una de las obras más apreciadas y de mayor acogida por parte de los lectores de Carol Ann Duffy. Consta de treinta y cuatro poemas, todos teniendo como temática el amor, en el más amplio sentido, pero tratado desde muy diferentes perspectivas, combinando en ellos la dureza, la ternura, el clasicismo, la experimentación, el humor, o el más profundo lirismo tratado desde el punto de vista moderno, o tradicional, según el caso.

The moon tiger scratches at shooting stars, polar bears floats down from their mountain for starfish and chips, and the zookeeper, of course, is an alien. Carol Ann Duffy''s lyrical, humorous verse illuminates a world that is both familiar and strange.

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 every aspect as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door. Part of Duffys talent besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety is her ventriloquism . . . From verbal nuances to mind-expanding imaginative leaps, her words seem freshly plucked from the minds of non-poets that is, she makes it look easy Charlotte Mendelson, Observer

Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they have inspired Paul Muldoon, Vickie Feaver and U. A. Fanthorpe, for example, engage with classic works by Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti the result is a collection of voices that speak to one another across the centuries. Teasing, subverting, arguing, echoing and ultimately illuminating, Answering Back is a vibrant, fascinating and timeless anthology, compiled by one of the nations favourite poets. Intriguing . . . Entertaining and stimulating Good Book Guide A starry game of call and answer across poetic generations FT Magazine

In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. In each one is a gift. You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina, poised to begin, or catch your lips moving in time with a festive song that drifts out into the night. Whatever the surprise, when the curtains draw back and the lights sharpen, Duffys beguiling words, paired with captivating illustrations from Yelena Bryksenkova, call you inside to feel the warmth.

Its Christmas Eve in Londons financial district. A billionaire in his penthouse suite is visited by the ghost of Sarah Whitehead, the grief-stricken nun who has haunted the Bank of England for hundreds of years. What follows is a spellbinding journey through the night and around the globe as the ghost shows the billionaire the human suffering on which his excessive wealth depends. Carol Ann Duffys A Christmas Ghost Story is a gorgeously illustrated tale for our times with all the magic of Dickens, reminding us that love is the greatest treasure of all.

The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffys third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar but soon prove anything but. This book leads our imagination to places our minds could not have suspected were there, or would not have dared to go alone. Some of its voices are disarmingly direct, while others blur the lines between fantasy and reality, confession and self-delusion, forcing us to re-examine everything we thought we knew about some of our most basic human drives and emotions. Deeply intelligent, unflinchingly honest, with a deftness of touch and tone, and openness all the more moving for its lack of sentimentality, The Other Country is as remarkable a collection today as it was on its first publication.

Carol Ann Duffys beautiful anthology features an eclectic mix of poems that chart human fascination with the moon across the centuries and around the world.Carol Ann Duffy on To the Moon:Editing Answering Back, in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon. I then started to keep a record of such references, and from my notebook, I see that in one morning alone I came across no fewer than nine poems, from the likes of Coleridge, Graves, Rosetti and Rowe - and it was this selection that initially inspired To the Moon. Theres something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 BC, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the Moon itself:I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays down its load. In collecting together poems such as these - poems that span continents and centuries - To the Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.

In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English languages best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her selection one new poem. It makes for a sequence that is sensual, stimulating, irresistible.