Out of all the love poems for her, this might be the most quoted of all time, with the opening question one of the Shakespeare phrases you undoubtedly know. In the Bard’s famous “Sonnet 18 ...

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...