Sincerity
Sincerity Sincerity is Duffy's final collection of poems as UK Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the Costa Award-winning The Bees. There are moving elegies here for what has…
Specifikacia Sincerity
Sincerity
Sincerity is Duffy's final collection of poems as UK Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the Costa Award-winning The Bees. There are moving elegies here for what has departed; whether that be children who have flown the nest, a way of life, literary luminaries, past loves, lost parents or our own youth. Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of life.
In some of her most radical work yet, we see Duffy satirise and unpick the deception and dishonesty at the heart of the current political situation. This collection finds a poet at the height of her powers using her full poetic range, casting her eye both inwards, in poems of a deeply personal nature, and yet also outwards, taking stock of a world in turmoil. A rallying cry builds steadily through the book culminating in a moving closing ode to the