New Poet Laureate

[sox-and-the-city]

If you want a really thorough grounding in Duffy's poetry, I'd start with:

Standing Female Nude, War Photographer, Rapture, Meantime, The Way My Mother Speaks, Tea, Shooting Stars, Originally, Mrs Aesop, Valentine, Before You Were Mine and In Mrs.Tilscher's Class.

That'll give you a good general overview. I included Tea bnot because of it being one of her more well known poems, but simply because it's actually quite nice. It proves somewhere deep down she DOES have a heart after all, i guess.

I still can't get over the fact that in Advanced Higher i could've got to study Plath, Austen, Achebe, Chaucer, Shakespeare and any number of other amazing writers and i got stuck with Duffy and Chekhov (yups, reading translations of depressing Russian plays, good times...).

I'll husht my whining now.