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Elegies

by Douglas Dunn · 1985

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Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985, these poems were written after the death of Douglas Dunn's first wife in March 1981.

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emotionalemotionalMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 64 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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