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 Manchunian 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.
Author Biography
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She has published seven collections of poems for adults and has received many awards.She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. Her most recent collection, Rapture, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006.Her first collection of poems for children, Meeting Midnight, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year in 1999, and her second, The Oldest Girl in the World, received the Signal Prize for Children's Poetry.
