by Carol Ann Duffy · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781509852925
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«The Bees» is Carol Ann Duffy's poetry collection, published by Picador in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Written during her time as UK Poet Laureate, the collection brings together tavern songs, love poems, political anger, and elegies for friends and her own mother. The bee runs through the volume as a symbol of the grace still left in the world and of what is worth protecting.
Winner of the Costa Book Award for poetry and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011.
Aimed at readers of contemporary poetry in English and those following Carol Ann Duffy's career.
Dame Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, serving in this position until her term ended in 2019. She was the first female, the first Scottish-born and the first openly lesbian poet to hold the Poet Laureate position.
