ELIZABETH JENNINGS

Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth centurys best-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almost fifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, she received numerous awards, including the W.H. Smith Prize for her 1986 Collected Poems.This New Selected Poems comes forty years on from her first Carcanet Selected, which it honours by retaining her original choices while adding a substantial number of poems from her several later collections.Edited by Rebecca Watts, whose debut poetry collection was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Prize, this book is a new take on a poet whose human sympathy and religious faith are transferable and timeless.

''She is well worth exploring for the many felicities in her poems and or the perfection of her lyric ear-no other poet but Tennyson had a more flawless sense of sound.'' Elizabeth Jennings