Duffy deliberately inverts the traditional concept of a "gospel" (meaning "good news" or a religious account of a male savior). Instead, she offers a secular, female-centric scripture. The poems do not follow a single narrative but rather form a mosaic of female archetypes: the lover, the mother, the historical icon, the victim, and the deity.
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A brilliant satire about education. A girls’ school is so repressive that when something genuinely funny happens, the laughter becomes a physical, destructive force that shatters the walls. The poem ends with a revolutionary tableaux of girls laughing in the ruins of patriarchy.