The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy DBE Groundswell Speaker 2024 Elixir reads like a novel

Elixir reads like a novel

and the far-reaching trauma of solitude

Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781444707854Extent: 912 pages

All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist

Which all seem to be of one girl – and she’s going to start a war

The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy DBE Groundswell Speaker 2024 Elixir reads like a novelWho? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk. The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore. Behind every famous man is a great woman and from the quick tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection of feminist poems. Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver