New Selected Poems

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 during her lifetime, including the W.H. Smith Prize for her 1986 Collected Poems, which went on to sell more than 50,000 copies. In 1992 was appointed CBE for services to literature. Carcanet first published her work in 1975. This New Selected Poems comes forty years on from her first Carcanet Selected, which it honours by retaining her original choices and adding poems from her several later collections. It marks the high points of a poetic career which spanned more than half a century and yielded some of the most moving and surprising poems of modern times. 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.