The Penguin Book of Elegy Michael Murphy Memorial Prize This is a firecracker of

This is a firecracker of a debut collection

grief and the necessity of the unreal

drag and clown

this world holds a prismatic

The Penguin Book of Elegy Michael Murphy Memorial Prize This is a firecracker of'A tremendous sentimental education of a book a literary adventure chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild card flair fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the Month) Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans, revitalized by the poets of the Renaissance and continuing down to the present day, it speaks eloquently and affectingly of the experience