Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Elhum Shakerifar the language of love becoming

the language of love becoming as fraught with contradiction as love itself

and a trans poetics

those men were able to see the difference between a bicycle and a machine gun: later on

and in ‘Keeper of the Fire’ and ‘In Memory of John Bayley’ late poems of remembrance memorialise lost friends

Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Elhum Shakerifar the language of love becomingThis beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffys much celebrated festive poems. For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas, transporting them in one year to a seventeenth century festival on the frozen Thames, in another to Western Front to witness the famous 1914 truce, then to a sweet winters night in the South of France