Havisham
The poem 'Havisham' comes from the collection Mean Time (1993) although it shares many similarities with the poems from Duffy's later collection, The World's Wife (1999): it is a dramatic monologue, giving voice to a female character from a well-known literary work authored by a man, in this case the character of Miss Havisham from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. As such, the poem works well alongside a study...