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The Bees
- Narrated by: Carol Ann Duffy
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are elegies, too, for beloved friends and - most movingly - the poet's own mother.
Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's subject; sometimes it strays into the poem or hovers at its edge. In the end Duffy's point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. The Bees, at once intimate and public, is a work of great power from one of our most cherished poets.
©2017 Carol Ann Duffy (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio
What the critics say
"Swooningly glorious." (The Times)
"Indisputably her best volume." (Sunday Times)