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The bees

Duffy, Carol Ann2012
Book
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Britain's Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and - most movingly - the poet's own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge. In the end, Duffy's point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect.
Main title:
The bees / Carol Ann Duffy.
Work:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2012, c2011.
Collation:
83 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2011.
ISBN:
9780330442459
Dewey class:
821.914
Language:
English
BRN:
132733
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