Winner of the 2011 Costa Poetry Award by UK Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy."Beautiful and moving poetry for the real world." -Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian"Indisputably her best volume." -Sunday TimesIn The Bees, Duffy uses her full poetic range: love poems, drinking songs, poems of political anger, and elegies for beloved friends, and - most movingly - the poet's own mother. Woven throughout the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's subject, sometimes straying into the poem, or hovering at its edge. In the end, Duffy's point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. At once intimate and public, The Bees is a work of great power from one of the UK's most cherished poets. | The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters