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

‘the only stone in which the flaws are prized’

and a trans poetics

 Sunday Times

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