*An extraordinarily frank and tender elegy to a young woman*'I've read it several times with admiration' Daily Telegraph'Written in off-rhymed couplets, Raine's masterwork is one of the great long poems written in English in this century, a companion to W.H. Auden's New Year Letter and John Berryman's The Dream Songs' Talk Magazine'A tender, funny, touching, virtuosic (and only faintly obscene) 700 line elegy for his former lover' Independent'A wonderful new extraordinary poem' Daily Telegraph
- ISBN10 0330375768
- ISBN13 9780330375764
- Publish Date 23 June 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English