Possible Clues:

• Bard for the bereaved
• Poet, e.g. Gray
• One responsible for mournful work on island in eastern Thailand
• Writer of reflective poems
• Poet has limb trapped in building site
• Keen writer
• Poet's supporter is in alien environment
• It's glee, strangely, shown by a mournful poet
• Poet needing energy is falling behind on time
• Poet right to pen first of sonnets in support of sweetheart