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Rats' Tales

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rats' Tales
Authors and Contributors      Adapted by Melly Still
By (author) Carol Ann Duffy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 126
Category/GenreAnthologies
Myth and legend told as fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780571299041
ClassificationsDewey:398.2
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 6 December 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The volume contains two texts for each story: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful prose and Melly Still's lively dramatization. Rats' Tales celebrates the power of storytelling and will be published to coincide with the premiere at Manchester Royal Exchange in November 2012. On Beasts and Beauties, on which Carol Ann Duffy and Melly Still also collaborated: 'The first night audience did not exit from the theatre, they hover-crafted out of it on a balloon of bliss.' Independent

Author Biography

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. She is Poet Laureate.