To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems

Carol Ann Duffy

Dec 2009 · Picador

About this eBook

There's something incredibly moving, and electrifying, to read a poem from the Chinese Book of Odes, written around 500 B.C, and to feel both our distance from and our closeness to the past, and the moon itself: I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road. My heart lays down its load.

In collecting together poems such as these - poems that span continents and centuries - To The Moon shows what it is to be human; to love, to lose, to dream and to hope. The poems it contains give us a real and profound sense of our time on this planet, and the pleasures they offer are - like space itself - infinite.

About the author

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she studied philosophy. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan Award and the E M Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T S Eliot Prize for Rapture. She became the first female Poet Laureate in 2009.