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 Maugham Award, and many other distinctions followed, including the W. H. Smith Award, 1987 and a CBE.
She died in Oxford in 2001.
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New Collected Poems
‘She has shown herself to be a poet who really has a personal vision along with the gift for making it immediate and shareable’ – Kingsley […]