Jubilee Lines
About this book
To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each of the of the sixty years of Her Majesty's reign.
Celebrated writers as Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Wendy Cope, Geoffrey Hill, Jackie Kay, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Don Paterson and Jo Shapcott, alongside some of the newest young talent around - address a moment or event from their chosen year, be it of personal or political significance or both. Through a series of specially commissioned poems, Jubilee Lines offers a unique portrayal of the country and times in which we have lived since 1952, culminating in an essential portrait of today: the way we speak, the way we chronicle, the way we love and fight, the way we honour and remember.
Brilliantly introduced and edited by Carol Ann Duffy, Jubilee Lines is an unforgettable commemoration: not only a monarch's reign but of a way of living for generations of her peoples.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1953 : Winged Back
- 1954 : The Royal Visit
- 1955 : Running Away to the Sea
- 1956 : Class Photograph
- 1957 : On not dying young
- 1958 : 1958
- 1959 : Meeting Walt
- 1960 : The Air
- 1961 : Between the Cherubim
- 1962 : Sixteen
- 1963 : World Events
- 1964 : Events & Happenings
- 1965 : Sweet Fifteen
- 1966 : Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class
- 1967 : Glose: The Summer of Love
- 1968 : 1968
- 1969 : The Clearing
- 1970 : The Year Nijinsky Won the Triple Crown
- 1971 : M.A.D.
- 1972 : 1972
- 1973 : The Centenarian
- 1974 : 1974
- 1975 : The Convoy of Tears
- 1976 : To a Ladybird
- 1977 : 1977 (I am quite sure of this)
- 1978 : Between
- 1979 : Life and Land, Thursday May 3rd 1979
- 1980 : 1980
- 1981 : Tommy McGhee, Corby Works
- 1982 : Task Force
- 1983 : The Year as a Muscle
- 1984 : 1984
- 1985 : Another Country
- 1986 : The Halving
- 1987 : The Great Storm
- 1988 : 1988
- 1989 : At a Dictatorâs Grave
- 1990 : Home
- 1991 : Eighteen
- 1992 : Marlene Dietrich
- 1993 : Fermatâs Lost Theorem
- 1994 : Chunnel/Le Tunnel sous la Manche
- 1995 : 1995
- 1996 : The Party Wall Act 1996
- 1997 : The Big Listener
- 1998 : International Year of the Oceans
- 1999 : Margaret Kirk née Baxter
- 2000 : Greenwich
- 2001 : Monolith
- 2002 : Saturday the Eleventh of August 2002
- 2003 : The Search
- 2004 : 2004
- 2005 : The Box
- 2006 : Love Poem Disguised as an Elegy
- 2007 : Within the Cooling-off Period
- 2008 : In the space of that year
- 2009 : Home Birth
- 2010 : Eyjafjallajökull
- 2011 : The Anthropocene
- 2012 : The Thames, London 2012
- About the Editor
- Also by Carol Ann Duffy
- Copyright
