The Daily Poem: Prayer

For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Carol Ann Duffy is one of the 10 poets shortlisted for the pounds 5,000 T S Eliot prize. Each of the poets will be featured in The Daily Poem this week and next. The winner will be announced next January, after an Oscars-style process in which the 1,850 members of the Poetry Book Society will each have a vote. She was born in Glasgow in 1955. She has lived in Staffordshire, Liverpool and in London, where she works as a freelance writer. This poem appears in Mean Time published by Anvil at pounds 6.95.