Bethlehem: A Christmas Poem

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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.

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.

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 *