Bees 9781804990155 Then the body of nineteen-year-old

Then the body of nineteen-year-old Janie Warren turns up in the seaside town of Bidecombe

the Boks dug deep and found a way to get over the line  with their noses in front

What are you waiting for

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas

Bees 9781804990155 Then the body of nineteen-year-oldThe 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