Rapture

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Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem & a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions & transformations of love -- infatuation longing passion commitment rancour separation & grief. Instead Rapture is a map of real love in all its churning complexity showing us that a song can be made from even the most painful episodes in our lives. These are poems that will find deep rhymes in the experience of most readers & will ultimately prove that poetry can & should speak for us all. ' It isn't often that I pick up a book of poems & read it straight through like a novel but that is exactly what happened with Rapture. Read this book if you are in love out of love or waiting for it to come along' Daisy Goodwin Mail on Sunday ' Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane & accessible poet of our time & Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' Rose Tremain Books of the Year Guardian