Off the Shelf by Carol Ann Duffy ocean vuong and new discoveries

and new discoveries

This is a book about growing up

Sweden and the USA

drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing

Off the Shelf by Carol Ann Duffy ocean vuong and new discoveriesIn Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basement of forgotten books to the shelves of a cramped Welsh arcade, from the poetry corner of the local bookstore to the last bookshop standing in a post