Rapture

RaptureThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book length love poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations infatuation, longing, passion, commitment,

It also features guests such as soul singer Betty Wright and trumpeter Roy Hargrove

Produced by reggae giant Bunny Lee and mixed by dub pioneer King Tubby at Channel One Studio in Kingston

with lyrics calling for unity over adventurous

strong voice

shedding light on the artist’s work and motivations

As he does the rounds

shifting its focus from London to the regions

rough-and-tumble land where a man could go as far as his wits

a comic opera

Set in a small town on the coast of the Barents Sea

who proclaimed a serious warning in the first edition liner notes: 'Listening to these tracks may cause addiction and provoke heavy rotation

When we know that our entire existence is founded on freak occurrences and improbable coincidences