Andrew Motion (Author) Andrew Motion's most recent collection of poetry is Essex Clay. He was poet laureate from 1999 to 2009, served for some years as Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Stephen Regan (Author) Stephen Regan has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London; Ruskin College, Oxford; Harvard University; and Durham University, where he is now Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. His books include Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 (2004) and The Sonnet (2019).
If you have any weakness for poetry at all this book will draw you in then devastate you -- Susie Goldsbrough * The Times * Poignant … memorable … impressively fresh and compelling ... the reader is bound to come away from a collection like this asking what the poetry of lament might help to teach us about the task of grieving for the threatened loss of an entire world -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman * A magnificent reminder of the permanence of love -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail * The giants of the genre are well presented … there are discoveries aplenty … so monumental is this anthology that one can imagine it pillowing a knight’s head on an elaborately carved marble tomb -- Anthony Gardner * Tablet * Funny, angry and provocative … the anthology is a success ... the editors’ introduction is excellent – clear, informative and thought-provoking -- Sean O’Brien * Telegraph *