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'A lovely present for someone in your life for Valentine's Day.'
--Western Morning News
`She reminds us that poetry is our greatest national art and can also be the most accessible.' --Cathy Galvin, Sunday Times magazine
`An exhilarating harvest of 34 poems reveals Duffy as 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, she commands every conjugation in the `syntax of love'. Versatile, restless, moving as adroitly between verse-forms as she does between the stages of affection, and disaffection, Duffy shows us `what it is like in words'. As always, she manages the rare feat of building on traditions, forebears, allusions while stirring and shaking the emotions with muscular, unpretentious force.' --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
`The selection reminds us of her uncommon gift for accessibility coupled with profound artistry... The book showcases Duffy's breathtaking control of language and imagery... Duffy writes with a compelling mixture of bravura and tenderness... 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.' --The Sunday Telegraph
`[Duffy's] work has an earthy directness that is paradoxically flat yet engaging.' --The Daily Mail
`Is love poetry really hot? The best love poetry - and here I'm thinking of something like Carol Ann Duffy's `Warming Her Pearls' - distils the heat of passion in condensed, burning words... Buy Love Poems and test them out for yourself.'
--The Scotsman
`Both looks and reads like the ideal Valentine's book. Clad in a decadently textured burgundy and black hardback cover, this selection includes poems taken from eight of Duffy's previous books. Every aspect of love is tackled from the unrequited to the extremely requited, and all with Duffy's lyrical, often witty style that makes her one of the most accessible contemporary poets.' --Bath Life
`Thirty-four exhilarating poems reveal Duffy as a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire, devotion and despair.'
--Belfast Telegraph
`You couldn't ask for a better introduction to our current Poet Laureate than this dazzling collection. Duffy's vision of love isn't soppy but her direct and imaginative way of describing being in love couldn't be more honest.' --Glamour magazine
`A portable guide to the modern romantic lyric' --New Statesman
'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
--Western Morning News
`She reminds us that poetry is our greatest national art and can also be the most accessible.' --Cathy Galvin, Sunday Times magazine
`An exhilarating harvest of 34 poems reveals Duffy as 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, she commands every conjugation in the `syntax of love'. Versatile, restless, moving as adroitly between verse-forms as she does between the stages of affection, and disaffection, Duffy shows us `what it is like in words'. As always, she manages the rare feat of building on traditions, forebears, allusions while stirring and shaking the emotions with muscular, unpretentious force.' --Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
`The selection reminds us of her uncommon gift for accessibility coupled with profound artistry... The book showcases Duffy's breathtaking control of language and imagery... Duffy writes with a compelling mixture of bravura and tenderness... 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.' --The Sunday Telegraph
`[Duffy's] work has an earthy directness that is paradoxically flat yet engaging.' --The Daily Mail
`Is love poetry really hot? The best love poetry - and here I'm thinking of something like Carol Ann Duffy's `Warming Her Pearls' - distils the heat of passion in condensed, burning words... Buy Love Poems and test them out for yourself.'
--The Scotsman
`Both looks and reads like the ideal Valentine's book. Clad in a decadently textured burgundy and black hardback cover, this selection includes poems taken from eight of Duffy's previous books. Every aspect of love is tackled from the unrequited to the extremely requited, and all with Duffy's lyrical, often witty style that makes her one of the most accessible contemporary poets.' --Bath Life
`Thirty-four exhilarating poems reveal Duffy as a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire, devotion and despair.'
--Belfast Telegraph
`You couldn't ask for a better introduction to our current Poet Laureate than this dazzling collection. Duffy's vision of love isn't soppy but her direct and imaginative way of describing being in love couldn't be more honest.' --Glamour magazine
`A portable guide to the modern romantic lyric' --New Statesman
'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
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A selection of dazzling love poems from the Poet Laureate
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I love Carol Ann Duffy and was not disapointed in anyway with this collection of poems even though I already have most of them in other books its a lovely read to have them all together. If you enjoy her work and love to spend an hour relaxing witha volume then buy this book its not gushy love its real raw emotional love,
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After attending a reading by the author at The Royal Exchange in Manchester, you simply could not fail to fall in love with the Passion and humour contained within. Each poem was placed into its context and was delivered complete with everything the author intended. This not only inspires you to read more of her work, but helps you understand her very clever perspectives. Fabulous!
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book because I had read the poem Valentine and loved it. This book only has poems with the theme of love or relationships. It's brilliant, has lots of poems, and each poem has a different theme/emotion to it. It's hardback and the cover is great as well so it would make a good present.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
I Love the Love Poems
She's the Poet Laureate, for heaven's sake; and this collection amply demonstrates why.
She doesn't do difficult or inaccessible verse, and this book will appeal even to... Read more
She doesn't do difficult or inaccessible verse, and this book will appeal even to... Read more
Published 16 hours ago by Ms. Fiona Allen
Lovely book
This is a compilation of some of the most popular love poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. It includes the wonderful "Warming her Pearls", "Mrs Lazarus", and "Hour". Read more
Published 3 months ago by A John
Wonderful and Elegant Collection
Carol Ann Duffy here is at her inimitable best and every poem here is just lovely. Along with collections by Adam O'Riordan and Caroline Bird as well as the collection Rhyme and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lesley Tingle
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Don't bother with the Kindle sample.
5% gives a title page of Love Poems
8% gives every other Carol Ann Duffy title in Picador
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5% gives a title page of Love Poems
8% gives every other Carol Ann Duffy title in Picador
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Published 18 months ago by JJ Readalot
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