Elegy
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts embarks on a personal exploration of the role of the elegy and talks to poets Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley and Gillian Clarke about their own elegies.
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts embarks on a personal exploration of the role of the elegy. He talks to poets Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley and Gillian Clarke about their own elegies and discusses with Andrew Motion the challenges of writing elegies at times of public mourning. Michael writes a series of elegies to the elegists of the past and asks whether, in the way it captures lost moments, objects and people, all poetry is elegy.
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