Elegies

An anthology of elegies collated by Carol Ann Duffy. The book will contain many fan favourites as well as a brand new poem on the theme of death. This book will be one of four anthologies which we will publish simultaneously.>

About the author

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Ann Duffy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 02.02.2023
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781529096880
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9688-0
• Pages: 64
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Dimensions (packing): 12 x 18.8 x 1.5 cm
• Subjects: death, Poetry, Spirits, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, 21st Century, Ghosts, Memorial, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), c 2020 to c 2029, grief, Elegy, Funeral, Elegy / Elegiac styles, poetry collection, Mourning, Remembrance, Anthologies, Encomium, Peroration