Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard

David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home

Christine Marendon’s enigmatic

close attention: ‘…the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola

he would die of complications from leukaemia just four months later

Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Tom PickardThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffys verse have made her our most admired and best loved contemporary poet. Sincerity is Duffys final collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the Costa Award winning The Bees. Time and its passage are at the heart of this reflective work, which gazes out from the autumn of life. There are moving elegies here for what has departed; whether that