Feminine Gospels

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It is not merely a desire to encapsulate women, but a desire to press the issue of better understanding women.

Throughout, Duffy makes some shrewd observations, and poses some fascinating thoughts and questions; in ‘The Long Queen’, for instance, she asks: ‘What was she queen of? Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief . How a person deals with the ever day situations in life helps to better understand a person as a whole. One of the most problematic portions of reviewing an entire book of poetry is that with each poem the reader is given a far different story or concept.Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T.

in stripping women bare of their layers, carol ann duffy centres her anthology feminine gospels on expanding upon the historical, the archetypal, the biblical, and the fantastical visions of female identity, often rewriting them as she sees fit. Some said/ she turned into a cloud/ and floated home,/ falling there like rain, or tears,/ upon her husband’s face. It was fine, there are some poems (A dreaming week, The Map-Woman, Sub) which I personally love, but overall as a collection I felt as if all of the themes, structures and general vibe of the poems were very similar throughout; It feels as if Duffy wanted to ensure that all of these poems linked perfectly but ended up making several very similar products.On the other side of this is Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry; and in Feminine Gospels Duffy is at her best in dealing with the mundane. So much emphasis has been placed upon all of the senses, and the generational scope too is nothing short of masterful. Her many collections include Mean Time , Love Poems and The Bees , which won the Costa Poetry Award.