Book Club

"The Bees" By Carol Ann Duffy

The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of poems as Poet Laureate. In it she uses her full

poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems of political anger; there are

elegies, too, for beloved friends, and – most movingly – the poet’s own mother. Woven and

weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy’s

subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers 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. The Bees, at once intimate and public, is a work of great

power from one of our most cherished poets

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