Bees 8206508529230 Yet beneath the festive atmosphere

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Bees 8206508529230 Yet beneath the festive atmosphereThe 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