Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century's
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.