Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Julia Blackburn and others in the work

and others in the work of today’s poets

The collection is in turn heartfelt

and the Scholar is an eloquent plea for the centrality

The Matter (Carcanet)

Her first Collected Poems includes all of the poems from her nine acclaimed volumes of adult poetry - from Standing Female Nude to Ritual Lighting (2014) - as well as her much-loved Christmas poems

Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Julia Blackburn and others in the workThis beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffys much celebrated festive poems. For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas, transporting them in one year to a seventeenth century festival on the frozen Thames, in another to Western Front to witness the famous 1914 truce, then to a sweet winters night in the South of France