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Ours: A poetry anthology by Duffy, Maureen, Russ, Jana, Jaggs-Fowler, Robert, Knight, Su (2013) Paperback
A collection of poems from professional and non-professional contributors put together from the winners of our charity homeland/motherland poetry competition.
The collection will donate 10% of its sales to the WWO, the WorldWide Orphans foundation (wwo.org).
The WWO is an international charity and as such is perfectly suited to benefit from this, an international poetry collection.
Fantastic Books Publishing is very proud to be involved with such a worthy and dedicated charity and thanks each and every one of our talented contributors.
A special thanks to Maureen Duffy who gave up her time to not only contribute to the competition but also to help judge the prize winners.
The collection will donate 10% of its sales to the WWO, the WorldWide Orphans foundation (wwo.org).
The WWO is an international charity and as such is perfectly suited to benefit from this, an international poetry collection.
Fantastic Books Publishing is very proud to be involved with such a worthy and dedicated charity and thanks each and every one of our talented contributors.
A special thanks to Maureen Duffy who gave up her time to not only contribute to the competition but also to help judge the prize winners.
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First published September 17, 2013
About the author
Maureen Duffy
63 books17 followersMaureen Patricia Duffy was a British novelist, poet, playwright, nonfiction author and activist.
Duffy's work often used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology as frameworks. Her writing was distinctive for its use of contrasting voices, or streams of consciousness, often including the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels have been linked to a European tradition of literature which explores reality through the use of language and questioning, rather than through traditional linear narrative. James Joyce in particular, and Modernism in general, are significant influences on her fiction, as is Joyce Cary.
Duffy, with author and activist Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and two others founded the Writers' Action Group in 1972, which gained more than 700 author members. Their campaign for Public Lending Right (annual payments to authors based on public-library loans of their books) succeeded legally in 1979 after support for it at the 1978 TUC conference. She joined a delegation to meet Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977. She remained an authority on copyright, intellectual property law and secondary author rights.
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Duffy's work often used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology as frameworks. Her writing was distinctive for its use of contrasting voices, or streams of consciousness, often including the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels have been linked to a European tradition of literature which explores reality through the use of language and questioning, rather than through traditional linear narrative. James Joyce in particular, and Modernism in general, are significant influences on her fiction, as is Joyce Cary.
Duffy, with author and activist Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and two others founded the Writers' Action Group in 1972, which gained more than 700 author members. Their campaign for Public Lending Right (annual payments to authors based on public-library loans of their books) succeeded legally in 1979 after support for it at the 1978 TUC conference. She joined a delegation to meet Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977. She remained an authority on copyright, intellectual property law and secondary author rights.
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November 18, 2017
I love Maureen Duffy's poetry - it's down to earth, solid, and is about real people and real things. There is only one of her poems in Ours because this is mainly a book of the winners and shortlisted entries to a competition that she judged. The fact that she was the judge ensures the quality of the end product, and there are a handful of other poets who were invited to contribute to the final collection. The book contains two other names that I know, Robert Jaggs-Fowler and Sue Knight - neither of whom are a well known as poets as they should be but maybe that will change with time.
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