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Bethlehem: A Christmas Poem

Hardback

Main Details

Title Bethlehem: A Christmas Poem
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
Illustrated by Alice Stevenson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:48
Dimensions(mm): Height 128,Width 138
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781447226123
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 24 October 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

From the reimagining of the Feast of Stephen in Wenceslas to The Christmas Truce, Carol Ann Duffy's moving depiction of a Christmas football match in the trenches, the Poet Laureate's Christmas poems are always brim full of her characteristic wit, warmth and imagination. Christmas 2013 brings us Bethlehem, Carol Ann Duffy's own take on the much-loved Christmas story.

Author Biography

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 and Forward Prizes, the Costa Prize for poetry, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.

Reviews

Carol Ann Duffy's evocative new poem will transport you to Bethlehem, capturing the sights, the sounds and the atmosphere of this ancient and magical place. -- Annual Books Round-Up 2013 * Guardian *