The Penguin Book of Elegy Michael Murphy Memorial Prize ‘The best thing Tom Cruise

‘The best thing Tom Cruise has been in for a very long while…’ Matthew Caley

grief and the necessity of the unreal

This is a firecracker of a debut collection

all are seamlessly braided together

Ian Crockatt succeeds in catching Rilke's blend of crafted sensuality and inward-focused spiritual searching

The Penguin Book of Elegy Michael Murphy Memorial Prize ‘The best thing Tom Cruise'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