Carol Ann Duffy’s Faery Tales, a heady mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar, is a new collection of rebooted fairy stories packed tightly into 350 pages. No other writer can retell a story ...
Originally This autobiographical poem sees Duffy considering and exploring the sense of isolation and confusion felt when as a child her parents moved from the Gorbals in Glasgow to England.
From Seamus Heaney, to Carol Ann Duffy, Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast ... At 12:03 on Thursday 8th October, the poet Murray Lachlan Young read out his own poetic reimagining of this iconic verse.