Bees 8206508529230 Jess is encouraged to enter

Jess is encouraged to enter too

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

abandoned at the last

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

the freedom to paint

Bees 8206508529230 Jess is encouraged to enterThe 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