The Twelve Poems of Christmas

by Carol Ann Duffy

Genres: Poetry

16 pages, Pamphlet

First published September 25, 2009

About the author

Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009.

She is the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBT person to hold this position.

Her collections include Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Rapture (2005), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language that has made them popular in schools.

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 2 out of 5]

An underwhelming selection of Christmas Poems. Some nice photography or illustrations might have saved this but it was literally just 12 poems, as some of these were short, it felt like more of a leaflet than a book.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received as a bundle of 4 pamphlets - favourite poems in it Christmas in Envelopes by U A Fanthorpe andChristmas Sparrow by Billy Collins. Enjoyable read.