Hannah Kent on Carol Ann Duffy's poetry
Hannah Kent explains why she chose 'If I Was Dead' by Carol Ann Duffy as this week's Friday Poem.
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Author of The Good People and Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, shares why she has chosen 'If I Was Dead' by Carol Ann Duffy as this week's Friday Poem.
'If I Was Dead' can be read in Carol Ann Duffy's 2005 collection, Rapture.
Rapture
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'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose Tremain
Rapture is a love story told through poetry by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.