Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy

Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann DuffyIn Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions and revisions of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers,

It's squishy

only the memory of their extraordinary adventure to steal the Crown Jewels lives on

the nature of love and death

an addictive

'Magical and transporting

the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature

albeit distorted

and unwilling to talk

the rise and fall of tyrants and

This is the story of everyone else:Alcmene: Herc's mother (She has knives everywhere)Hylas: Herc's first friend (They were more than friends)Megara: Herc's wife (She'll tell you about their marriage)Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc's labours (He never asked for the job)His friends

By turns gripping and darkly funny

most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success