New Selected Poems

Elizabeth Jennings, Rebecca Watts

• Publisher: Carcanet Classics
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781784108656
• eBook ISBN: 9781784108663
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Poesia europea

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Also by Elizabeth Jennings
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Editor’s Note
• Winter Love
• Reminiscence
• Fantasy
• Italian Light
• Afternoon in Florence
• Identity
• The Idler
• Bell-Ringer
• The Climbers
• Fishermen
• The Island
• A Way of Looking
• Song at the Beginning of Autumn
• Kings
• The Enemies
• In This Time
• Beyond Possession
• Tribute
• For a Child Born Dead
• Communication
• Mirrors
• In the Night
• Answers
• A Sense of the World
• Old Man
• Taken by Surprise
• The Storm
• Her Garden
• Summer and Time
• At Noon
• Ghosts
• Absence
• Disguises
• The Parting
• Resemblances
• A Death
• The Shot
• Song for a Departure
• Choices
• Telling Stories
• A Fear
• In a Foreign City
• The Roman Forum
• A Conversation in the Gardens of the Villa Celimontana, Rome
• A Roman Window
• Fountain
• San Paolo Fuori Le Mura, Rome
• Letter From Assisi
• The Annunciation
• Teresa of Avila
• Song for a Birth or a Death
• Family Affairs
• A Game of Chess
• My Grandmother
• In Praise of Creation
• World I Have Not Made
• Harvest and Consecration
• A World of Light
• A Requiem
• The Resurrection
• Mantegna’s Agony in the Garden
• Visit to an Artist
• Lazarus
• The Diamond Cutter
• Stargazers and Others
• To a Friend With a Religious Vocation
• Greek Statues
• The Pride of Life: A Roman Setting
• Men Fishing in the Arno
• Two Deaths
• About These Things
• The Instrument
• Remembering Fireworks
• Recoveries
• Man in a Park
• Father to Son
• Warning to Parents
• Admonition
• The Young Ones
• Bewilderment
• The Mind Has Mountains
• Madness
• The Interrogator
• Attempted Suicides
• Night Sister
• Words From Traherne
• Samuel Palmer and Chagall
• On a Friend’s Relapse and Return to a Mental Clinic
• Night Garden of the Asylum
• A Depression
• Grove House, Iffley
• Chinese Art
• Love Poem
• One Flesh
• The Animals’ Arrival
• Never to See
• Bonnard
• A Letter to Peter Levi
• Any Poet’s Epitaph
• Lucidities
• First Evening, by Rimbaud
• The Rooks, by Rimbaud
• Relationships
• A Sonnet
• Let Things Alone
• Hurt
• Growing Points
• Grapes
• Thunder and a Boy
• I Feel
• After a Time
• Rembrandt’s Late Self-Portraits
• Losing and Finding
• An Abandoned Palace
• Observing
• Consequently I Rejoice
• Almost Drowning
• Better Than a Protest
• Let There Be
• Hatching
• The Sleep of Birds
• Ways of Dying
• Christ Seen by Flemish Painters
• Moments of Grace
• Flies
• Cat in Winter
• Forgiveness
• Channel Port Night
• Thought and Feeling
• Death
• Night Power
• Christmas Suite in Five Movements
• A Dream of Spring
• Lent and Spring
• A Way to a Creed
• Celebrations and Elegies
• Rescued
• Recovering From a Death
• Is It Dual-Natured?
• Extending the Territory
• Clarify
• Love in Three Movements
• The Way of Words and Language
• Song of Time
• Water Music
• Tributes
• Beginning
• Times and Seasons
• The Smell of Chrysanthemums
• In Green Times
• A Litany for Contrition
• First Confession
• Star-Gazing
• The Way They Live Now
• Familiar Spirits
• Almost
• From the Modes of Love
• In the Meantime
• Praises
• Round and Round
• Praises
• Timely Issues
• Rage of the Moon
• Assurance
• Song in November 2000
• Assurance Beyond Midnight
• Afterword
• Select Bibliography
• Index of Titles and First Lines