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The Christmas Truce’. Duffy, Carol Ann. http://noglory.org/index.php/multimedia/poetry-and-spoken-word/35-carol-ann-duffy-the-last-post-2 CA. Duffy, D. Aitkenhead, JK. Rowling, M. Engel, P. Toynbee, et al. C. Brooker, PM. Evans. (2013). The Bedside Guardian 2013. M. Wainwright. Guardian Books. During World War One, 97 years ago, on December 24 and 25, 1914, along the western front, an unofficial ceasefire involving some 100,000 British and German troops took place. Just four months after the conflict started, the German and Allied armies had reached a stalemate bogged down in a vast network of flooded, freezing trenches undermining the pre-war patriotic fervour and claims it would all be over in a year. I am Creative Director of the Manchester Children's Book Festival, which is hosted and run by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met anddelivered in partnership with many of the major cultural and educational organisations across Manchester. My ambition is that is should be afestival for everyone with year-round events and special projects designed to raise aspirations and confidence in young people, offer project-based placements and festival management experience to our students, and to encourage the broadest possible audience to engage with literature, the arts, and opportunities for creative expression.

Beasts and Beauties: Eight Tales from Europe, first produced in Bristol, England, at the Bristol Old Vic,April 2004. Little Women, Big Boys (one-act), first produced in London, England, at Almeida Theatre, August 8, 1986. Times Educational Supplement, January 22, 1999, review of The Pamphlet, p. 13; April 23, 1999, review of Five Finger-Piglets, p. 27; December 17, 1999, review of The World's Wife, p. 22; January 19, 2001, John Mole, review of The Oldest Girl in the World, p. F20.Day One - Mrs Scrooge: a sweet read about the effect one person can have on the world. All the global warming content was a bit sad for a Christmas poem, but it did make me feel all warm and cosy. Duffy’s more disturbing poems also include those such as ‘Education for Leisure’ ( Standing Female Nude) and ‘Psychopath’ ( Selling Manhattan) which are written in the voices of society’s dropouts, outsiders and villains. She gives us insight into such disturbed minds, and into the society that has let them down, without in any way condoning their wrongdoings: ‘Today I am going to kill something. Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored […]’ (‘Education for Leisure’). Editor) Stopping for Death: Poems of Death and Loss, illustrated by Trisha Rafferty, Holt (New York, NY), 1996. Mother Tongue, Other Tongue, which encourages children with English as a second language to express themselves and share poetry written in their mother tongue, and students who are native English speakers to experiment with writing in a learned language, now a national campaign run annually;

The Game: Christmas Day, 1914’. McMillan, Ian. http://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-game-christmas-day-1914/ Duffy’s skilful use of alliteration and listing is shown to full effect in the poem, which powerfully conjures the moods of alienation or sudden interaction.

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The writing is gorgeous, musical, spellbinding. Each poem is illustrated by a different illustrator, which reinforces the impression of stepping into a different universe every time we move from one story to the next. I fell in love with the pictures in the poem Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday, but I have one big regret: I looked everywhere but no illustrator is credited anywhere in the book. That's a shame, and I hope the publisher will remedy to that next time the book goes to print. PLOEGSTEERT SECTOR BATTLEFIELD Experience Tours Prices 2013/2014 ANZAC Somme Tour Day Tour € 170,00 Each from 3 Persons Carol Ann Duffy by walnut whippet from Hull, UK — Original text : Carol Ann Duffy at Humber Mouth 2009Uploaded by Magnus Manske), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10712082

Day Ten - Frost Fair: I didn't like this one at all. A morbid last poem I think. I was looking forward to this as I am fascinated by the old fairs on the frozen Thames, but it was all tinged with darkness. Not super festive. She also writes picture books for children, and these include Underwater Farmyard (2002); Doris the Giant (2004); Moon Zoo (2005); The Tear Thief (2007); and The Princess's Blankets (2009). Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-03-29 00:08:22 Associated-names Roberts, David, 1970- illustrator Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40833415 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Duffy’s recent collections include her Collected Poems (2015), The Bees (2011), winner of the Costa Poetry Award and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and Rapture (2005) , winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. Duffy has also written verses for children. Her several collections of children’s poetry include The Gift (2010), New and Collected Poems for Children (2009), and The Hat (2007).During World War I, on and Around Christmas Day 1914, the Sounds of Rifles Firing and Shells Exploding Faded in a Number of Plac New Statesman, November 29, 1999, review of Time's Tidings: Greeting the Twenty-first Century, p. 83.

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