- Published: 20 February 2024
- ISBN: 9780241269602
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 688
- RRP: $85.00
The Penguin Book of Elegy
Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation
- Published: 20 February 2024
- ISBN: 9780241269602
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 688
- RRP: $85.00
Funny, angry and provocative … the anthology is a success ... the editors’ introduction is excellent – clear, informative and thought-provoking
Sean O’Brien, Telegraph
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
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
If you have any weakness for poetry at all this book will draw you in then devastate you
Susie Goldsbrough, The Times
A magnificent reminder of the permanence of love
Bel Mooney, Daily Mail