Nisha recommends:
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Herod, Shakespeare, Darwin, Elvis… Famous men whose names we see, whose lives we hear all the time. What these diverse men’s histories have in common is a remarkable absence in the telling – the women in their lives are often invisible and unheard.
Carol Ann Duffy takes a surprising selection of men from legend, literature and history, rewriting their tales from the wives’ perspectives. What follows is an interesting and witty poetic investigation into the minds of the women behind their husbands’ accounts. The poems are short and sharp, easily read and enjoyed, and leave the reader (whether female or male) with a newly ironical view on old familiar tales.
