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World's Wife

by Carol Ann Duffy

On audiotape, this collection of poems, each of which takes a famous male person or character - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontius Pilate, King Kong for example - presents their individual stories from the perspective of the lesser-known wife. Hence Mrs Darwin: Went to the Zoo. I said to Him - Something about that Chimp over there reminds me of you.

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