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.
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Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and currently lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance writer and editor. Her poems have appeared in a range of publications, including PN Review, The North, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the TLS and New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015). Her debut collection, The Met Office Advises Caution, was published by Carcanet in 2016 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Prize. Her second collection, Red Gloves, will be published by Carcanet in 2020.
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