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Mean Time

By: Carol Ann Duffy
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In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life.

These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

©2017 Carol Ann Duffy (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio
European Poetry World Literature

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