Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy Every Little Sound and the father’s paralysis

and the father’s paralysis

Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was described as a ‘blazing debut’

and now lives with her family in Yorkshire

in the driving wind

Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy Every Little Sound and the father’s paralysisThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffys verse have made her our most admired and best loved contemporary poet. Sincerity is Duffys final collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the Costa Award winning The Bees. Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of life. There are moving elegies here for what has departed; whether that