Hero by Sarah Grant Maura Dooley Each poem can stand alone

Each poem can stand alone

Duffy also adds to the selection her poem written for Danny Boyle's Pages of the Sea memorial for The Great War

form and music

the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Whitbread Poetry Award

but their impact is enduring

Hero by Sarah Grant Maura Dooley Each poem can stand alonePublished 10th April 2025. Hero is an exploration of the role of the storyteller and the relationships artists have between the two halves of themselves: the crowd fronting persona and the person behind the curtain. Through the lens of filmmaking and framed by the 17 step Monomyth (sometimes called The Heros Journey as theorised in Joseph Campbells The Hero With 1000 Faces) Hero is a collection about the pressure to follow the story path laid out