The Penguin Book of Elegy

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 *

Stephen Regan (Author)

Stephen Regan’s books include Irish Writing- An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (2004) and The Sonnet (2019). He has taught at Ruskin College, Oxford; Royal Holloway, University of London; and Durham University, where he is Professor Emeritus. He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Melbourne.

Andrew Motion (Author)

Andrew Motion’s most recent collection is New and Selected Poems 1977-2022 (2023). He was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart, and since 2015 has lived in Baltimore, where he is Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.

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