Anne Hathaway By Carol Anne Duffy

Sorry the sound quality isn't very good, but here's Duffy performing the poem Anne Hathaway, on the poetry live GCSE day, 29th Jan, 2009

Anne Hathaway

'Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed ...'
(from Shakespeare's will)

The bed we loved in was a spinning world
of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
where he would dive for pearls. My lover's words
were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses
on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme
to his, now echo, assonance; his touch
a verb dancing in the centre of a noun.
Some nights, I dreamed he'd written me, the bed
a page beneath his writer's hands. Romance
and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.
In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,
dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -
I hold him in the casket of my widow's head
as he held me upon that next best bed.

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[t4nn1e2]

is this in Demontfort hall?

[LeFunambulist]

Not sure I'm afraid, but I know it was in London.

[TomboyPunkrocker]

i'm sure this was City Hall in newcastle in 20010 or 2009...i went for my GCSEs

[skaiste12]

theyy offering uss this but i cbaa to go lool

[mahogonywhisper]

Oh, in year 11 we might get the chance to go!! xx

[xxdressagedivaxx]

Do you like Valentine?

[sugarrushmvs]

I really wish I'd have been there, she is my all time favourite poet. =\ Thanks for uploading.