Advent Street

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In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.

Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has been an active publisher of Scotland’s history and archaeology since 1792. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Her many collections include Mean Time , Love Poems and The Bees , which won the Costa Poetry Award. Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. A beautiful festive gift from the award-winning poet Carol Ann Duffy, with captivating illustrations from Yelena Bryksenkov. In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street.

Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief .