Winner of the TS Eliot Prize 2005.
Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful new collection is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, intellectual, emotional.
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The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive. Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity. Yet in showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives, Duffy has accessed a new level of directness that sacrifices nothing in the way of subtlety of expression. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers, and nowhere has Duffy more eloquently articulated her belief that poetry should speak for us all.
Rapture features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Rapture is available in Paperback, Hardback
Rapture was written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Rapture has 80 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
£9.89
