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New Selected Poems

UK Publisher: Carcanet

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.

Poet Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1926 and read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. Her first book...