New Selected Poems

Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century'sbest-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almostfifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, during her lifetime shereceived numerous awards, including the W. H. Smith Prize for her1986 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 Poemscomes forty years on from her first Carcanet Selected which it honoursby retaining her original choices and adding poems from her severallater collections. It marks the high points of a poetic career whichspanned more than half a century, and which yielded some of the mostmoving and surprising poems of modern times. Edited by Rebecca Watts, whose debut poetry collection wasshortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Prize, this book is a new takeon a poet whose human sympathy and religious faith are transferableand timeless.