Christmas Poems

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Published on 24 October 2013 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador).

Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. But tonight, as dusk falls, there is a sense of something special in the air. Christmas Poems showcases Duffy’s bold and innovative voice, alongside gorgeous artwork from Rob Ryan, David De Las Heras and Lara Hawthorne, amongst others. 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 winter’s night in the South of France with Pablo Picasso and his small dog. Picador Then the soldiers ceased fire and the magic of Christmas took hold .

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