Feminine Gospels

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In this beautiful poetry collection, Carol Ann Duffy takes us on an educational journey on what it means to be a woman in a patriarchal society and the burdens it brings with it. With each poem, the reader must relearn how to read, or at least take time to look at formatting not to miss the greater artistry present. When these two poems are considered together, it allows the reader to begin to connect to the poetry. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief . the themes on equality and obviously feminism were very ahead of her time and i think very impressive.

Feminine Gospels is an incredibly powerful book, which every woman should pick up at some point in her life. Duffy explores the female: from history (Elizabeth I to Marilyn Monroe) to the beauty of birth and raising a growing child, to some more erotic and sometimes personal poetry.

A new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women—historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life—from the award-winning author of The World's Wife. It is one thing to examine celebrity and analyze it; it is very different when a poet begins to explain how that celebrity may effect the general population. What makes this work important is its dealings with normalcy in such a way as the reader is made to better understand the deeper intricacies of life through form and subject. Part of Duffy's talent -- besides her ear for ordinary eloquence, her gorgeous, powerful, throwaway lines, her subtlety -- is her ventriloquism . Duffy deserves to outsell most of the novelists on your shelf' Observer 'One of the most important, and rightly loved, poets of our time' Independent 'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar' Guardian 'Witty, penetrating and lucid.

This nod to the famous actress allows a recognition that demands the reader to go back and reassess the rest of the poem. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. Many were moving however on account of unclear structuring of poems to provide a through line for pacing and some being personally underwhelming it averages to a 3 star.

The poems main purpose is to highlight that with fame or infamy these women were still very much women, in the sense that they were so much more than what we know. Feminine Gospels is very much an indictment on the modern world, and how women are still very much controlled. In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. The longest poem, although my least favourite, “The Laughter of Stafford Girls’ High,” is the one where the poet’s pure delight in language is clearly tangible. If I read a poem, it doesn't have to be immediately obvious to me what it's about, but I don't want to have to Google the poem to see what the hell is going on.