Carol Ann Duffy

The effortless virtuosity, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her an admired contemporary poet. This collection of poems aims to serve as a map of real love. It reflects Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion - as either redemptive or destructive.

Rapture

The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions and transformations of love - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief. Instead, Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity, showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers and will, ultimately, prove that poetry can and should speak for us all.

Rapture

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