The World's Wife: Poems

by Carol Ann Duffy

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On audiotape, this collection of poems, each of which takes a famous male person or character - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontius Pilate, King Kong for example - presents their individual stories from the perspective of the lesser-known wife. Hence Mrs Darwin: Went to the Zoo. I said to Him - Something about that Chimp over there reminds me of you.
  • ISBN10 057119995X
  • ISBN13 9780571199952
  • Publish Date 9 April 2001 (first published 24 September 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 96
  • Language English