ISBN: 9781743547922
Format: Ebook
Pub Date: 10/11/2015
Category: Poetry, Poetry By Individual Poets, Christmas, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Women Authors, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ireland
Imprint: Picador
Price: $8.99
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Following Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday, The Christmas Truce and Another Night Before Christmas, Carol Ann Duffy continues her annual tradition of writing a delightful and original Christmas poem.
This festive poem is about the Wren Boys of Ireland and their traditional celebration of St. Stephen's Day.
Beautifully illustrated throughout by Dermot Flynn.
Author Information
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. Her other beautifully illustrated Christmas poems include Another Night Before Christmas, Mrs Scrooge, Wenceslas, Bethlehem, Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday and The Christmas Truce. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems, Rapture and The Bees which won the Costa Poetry Award.
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