Bees 8206508529230 but to unite and inspire

but to unite and inspire a nation

the freedom to paint

The book does not shy away from tackling the hardest aspects of postnatal recovery

And then something momentous happens which causes each one of them to realize what they've done

True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are

Bees 8206508529230 but to unite and inspireThe Bees is Carol Ann Duffys 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 poets own mother. Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffys subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge. In the end, Duffys point is