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On the night before Christmas, a child in a house, as the whole family slept, behaved just like a mouse, and crept on soft toes down red-carpeted stairs. Her hand held the paw of her favourite bear... In 1822 Clement Moore wrote a poem about Christmas for his children. 'The Night Before Christmas' soon became a Christmas classic. Now one of Britain's best-loved poets has rewritten the poem for the 21st century. This new version is full of Carol Ann Duffy's characteristic wit and warmth, Illustrated by one of the most exciting Illustrators of the moment, this edition is destined to become a classic in its own right.

This title draws on women's experience - both personal and historical - to entertain and challenge in poems which celebrate, elegise and eroticise the female condition. With longer poems on beauty, identity and the physical, this title tells tall stories as though they were the gospel truth.

In this delightful new collection of poetry for children, Carol Ann Duffy takes us on a mud-and-all ramble through sand, socks, songs and schoolrooms. Charming and witty, infectiously enjoyable, these poems take pleasure in the discovery of imaginative worlds, from the loneliness of ghosts and ghouls to a shopping trip by Mancunian cows. At the heart of the book is a poem which follows the mischievous and educational journey of a hat blown through history, from one literary head to another, quoting its owner's most famous lines as it goes.

Carol Ann Duffy draws together key poems from her published work to date spanning almost 20 years of definitive writing - from Standing Female Nude (1985) to Feminine Gospels (2003).

Management Teaching use: (Poet for Our Times) The newspaper and its marketing are featured in this poem. The sensational headlines at the centre of the text are examples of how modern culture (and equally modern marketing) might be said to be 'dumbed down'. Students could discuss whether this is a true representation of how marketing is going. Do marketers have to be increasingly brash and shocking in their approach to their target market? Are consumers so surrounded by 'noise' in marketing communications that nothing but the loudest and brashest messages will get through? Or is this poem wrong? Is it the case that this kind of lowest common denominator marketing is no longer working and marketers should now be subtle in targeting small niche groups.

The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations - infatuation, longing, passion, commitment, rancour, separation and grief - as simply redemptive or destructive. Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity. Yet in showing us that a song can be made of even the most painful episodes in our lives, Duffy has accessed a new level of directness that sacrifices nothing in the way of subtlety of expression. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers, and nowhere has Duffy more eloquently articulated her belief that poetry should speak for us all.

Each night, in the hours between supper and bedtime the Tear Thief carries her waterproof, silvery sack over her shoulder as she soundlessly steals the tears of every child who cries. But what does she do with all of those tears?

This study looks at Duffy's work from her early developments and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recently published work. It concentrates on Duffy's use of the dramatic monologue and the love poem and traces her early interest in surrealism and European modernism. The author points to Duffy's contribution as a serious and important poet and places her at the forefront of a change in poetry in Britain, who heralds and opens up the way for those writing after her.

A collection of poems by women from different cultures and backgrounds, portraying the varied facets of the female experience from childhood to old age.