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If you have any weakness for poetry at all this book will draw you in then devastate you -- Susie Goldsbrough * The Times *
Poignant … memorable … impressively fresh and compelling ... the reader is bound to come away from a collection like this asking what the poetry of lament might help to teach us about the task of grieving for the threatened loss of an entire world -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *
A magnificent reminder of the permanence of love -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *
The giants of the genre are well presented … there are discoveries aplenty … so monumental is this anthology that one can imagine it pillowing a knight’s head on an elaborately carved marble tomb -- Anthony Gardner * Tablet *
Funny, angry and provocative … the anthology is a success ... the editors’ introduction is excellent – clear, informative and thought-provoking -- Sean O’Brien * Telegraph *

The Penguin Book of Elegy

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    A Hardback by Prof Stephen Regan, Andrew Motion

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/11/2023
      ISBN13: 9780241269602, 978-0241269602
      ISBN10: 0241269601

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      If you have any weakness for poetry at all this book will draw you in then devastate you -- Susie Goldsbrough * The Times *
      Poignant … memorable … impressively fresh and compelling ... the reader is bound to come away from a collection like this asking what the poetry of lament might help to teach us about the task of grieving for the threatened loss of an entire world -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *
      A magnificent reminder of the permanence of love -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *
      The giants of the genre are well presented … there are discoveries aplenty … so monumental is this anthology that one can imagine it pillowing a knight’s head on an elaborately carved marble tomb -- Anthony Gardner * Tablet *
      Funny, angry and provocative … the anthology is a success ... the editors’ introduction is excellent – clear, informative and thought-provoking -- Sean O’Brien * Telegraph *

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