Elegies by Carol Ann Duffy Gerrie Fellows and the complexities of family

and the complexities of family dynamics

It shows her poetry's tone of inner discourse shifting imperceptibly towards a new and harsh gravity

Together they illuminate a long literary tradition

as well as romantic love

the debut collection of poems by American-born Erin Fornoff

Elegies by Carol Ann Duffy Gerrie Fellows and the complexities of familyIn Elegies Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best loved living poets arrays from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on death, grief and loss, drawing on work written over four decades, and adds to her selection one wholly new poem. It makes for a sequence that is warm, vibrant, alive. Picador