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    Mean Time
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    Mean Time

    Written by Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE

    Narrated by Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE

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    About this audiobook

    In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9781509853434
    Mean Time

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