"Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica" was written between 1942 and 1947, when Hamish Henderson was serving in the North African desert during the Second World War. Each elegy pays tribute to the men who fought with and against him, their lives portrayed with great sympathy and compassion, while the desert itself becomes the unforgiving enemy. Published in 1948, the poems were highly praised by his contemporaries including Cecil Day-Lewis, T. S Eliot and Hugh MacDairmid. This collection was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1949.
- ISBN13 9781846970931
- Publish Date 11 November 2008 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 March 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English