The World's Wife: Poems | 
pickI think this was the first collection of Duffy's I read, after encountering her selected poems at GCSE. I think I liked them better now, though some of them still feel like copout cheap-shots, savagery for the sake of it.
The Anne Hathway sonnet is still the best:
“I hold him in the casket of my widow's head
as he held me upon that next best bed.“
(In Shakespeare's will, he gave his wife, Anne Hathaway, the second best bed.)
Borrowed from a friend. I definitely appreciate Carol Ann Duffy more now than I did when we had to study her at school.
#poetrymatters #bridge
From the tagged collection a poem called. Mrs Kong, a funny, sarcy, clever collection of poems.
Saw a great adaptation of this the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival yesterday. We dug out our old copy from an out-of-the-way bookshelf to reread it afterwards. A witty collection. 💜
pick#booksandvinyl there‘s a great part in the Kray sisters poem where they lean on Sinatra to sing in their club and of course it‘s Nancy not frank.
This collection is wonderful, fairytales, myths, feminist and snarky.
This is one I‘m going to have to buy myself, I love it that much and it‘s a great start to poetry month.
#winterwonderland #marysboychild
Gone for carol ann duffy's Mrs Pilate poem.
A great description of her impressions of the man jesus. 'My God.His eyes were eyes to die for '
#young #poetrymatters
This one from ‘Little Red Cap‘. This is an amazing collection of poems - I love it, funny, sarcastic and feminist!
#living #poetrymatters
From the tagged book and poem Mrs Quasimodo - this is a great selection of poems. Funny and sarcastic.
#NUYear #PoetryandPower
From the first English female poet laureate, and what can be a more powerful a statement than that, a succinct poem which perhaps reflects on my earlier post on the problems with masculinity.
Jan. 13 #LitsyPoetry365 One of my all-time favourite poets. I'll forever be thankful to my friend and colleague who invited me to her reading in Mexico. Her feminist views, word play, creative perspectives, varied structures and downright brilliance make her a woman I look to for inspiration and courage. Duffy's authorial prowess is on full display in this tongue-in-cheek poem.
so-soThe poetry in this collection is definitely well crafted, witty and intelligent. I love the idea of the overall theme to look at wives of famous men (be it mythological, historical etc.). But in the end I felt there were also limits to the approach (at least in the way Duffy took it on) which kept the whole collection rather heteronormative. (Also the idea that good sex is rather experienced with the 'bad' men was at best boring).
I'm not a big reader of poetry - and I need a study guide for some of these - but I loved this in Carol Ann Duffy's collection of poems about wives and women.
