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

Her first book was awarded a Somerset Maughm Award, and many other distinctions followed, including the W H Smith Award, 1987 and a CBE.

She died in Oxford in 2001.

Kingsley Amis
"She has shown herself to be a poet who really has a personal vision along with the gift for making it immediate and shareable."

Anne Stevenson, the Sunday Times
"Some of the finest lyric poetry of the 20th century."