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Carol Ann Duffy
The Hat
Faber (94 pages) 9780571219650
Imagine the loneliness of the life of a ghost or a ghoul, or how a cow gets on when shopping; the sorrowful funeral of a stick-insect, the mind-stirring subject of a sock: a whole range of topics is here. The cover is an instant invitation with title and author in a hat shape topped off with a cow and the poems are terrific! The book is grand to dip into and read one or two, brilliant to go back to and reread any that particularly appeal, lovely to share aloud and good to get to know. The final piece is a longer narrative about the hat. It gets blown from poet's head to poet's head across decades and centuries, so brief choice quotes crop up every time. (What an invitation to extension-invention. Suppose the hat goes from king to king and - oops, that one's lost his head ... or ... maybe ...!)