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. Sm...

"The Collected Poems" is a new and definitive edition of the poetry of one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets. Almost all of Jennings' published poetry (including work never before collected) and a large selection of her unpu...

Does history tell stories? from "Concerning History" Yes, if the poet listens carefully. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created an abidingly popular body of poetry, using traditional...

In "A Poet's Choice" Elizabeth Jennings includes the poems which helped shape her taste – poems she read at school, or discovered in bookshops and the library, or pored over as an undergraduate – work which first gave her a taste for the art of poetr...

Elizabeth Jennings turned seventy the year this was published. This book of poems is graced by a firm wisdom and achieves moments of religious and individual serenity. "In the Meantime" strives to come to terms with losses, with failure, loves, and m...

"Every Changing Shape", published in 1961 and now in paperback for the first time, considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. Elizabeth Jennings wrote the book early in her career; it c...

"Selected Poems" draws on all the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points. It represents the poet's own distillation of the first two decades of her writing – the poems which established her as one of the most passionate and precise...