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Sincerity (Hardcover)
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Sincerity (Hardcover)
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List price R462
Loot Price R196
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You Save R266 (58%)
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'Carol Ann Duffy is considered a top poet. But she deserves better.
She deserves to outsell most of the novelists on your shelf '
Observer The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity
of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and
best-loved contemporary poet. Sincerity is Duffy's final collection
of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to
the Costa Award-winning The Bees. Time and its passage are at the
heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of
life. There are moving elegies here for what has departed; whether
that be children who have flown the nest, a way of life, literary
luminaries, past loves, lost parents or our own youth. As Duffy
dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, she
finds moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language
amid the complexities of life. This collection finds a poet at the
height of her powers using her full poetic range, casting her eye
both inwards, in poems of a deeply personal nature, and yet also
outwards, taking stock of a world in turmoil. In some of her most
radical work yet, we see Duffy satirise and unpick the deception
and dishonesty at the heart of our current political situation. A
rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a
moving closing ode to the virtue of sincerity. A fitting
culmination to her time as a Poet Laureate, this collection, at
once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our
most cherished and humane poets.
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