Mortimer's A to Zs of English History #joyce What sets these poems apart

What sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love

Moving in Jenga consists of taking one and only one block from any story except the completed top story of the tower at the time of the turn

and getting down by the Baltic where nightlife fun spills out onto the balmy beach at Sopot

and Chocky (1968)

new shapes

Mortimer's A to Zs of English History #joyce What sets these poems apartFrom the bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides. In these sparkling A to Zs, time travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency. As he ranges from the Great Plague to the Great Freeze, from Armada to Austen, and from tobacco to toenails, he shines a light into corners of history we never knew were so fascinating or so revealing