Answering Back
Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past

Edited By Carol Ann Duffy
November 2007
Picador
Distributed by the Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780330448239
160 pages, 5 1/4" x 8"
$29.95 Hardcover

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Carol Ann Duffy has asked some of the brightest lights in the poetry world to choose a poem that is meaningful - or has meant something - to them, and write a reponse to it. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they've inspired, "Answering Back" promises to be a truly unique anthology; from old favourites to modern classics, it will be a collection everyone can respond to.

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