Locked and Barred
Robert Crawford: Elizabeth Jennings, 24 July 2003
New Collected Poems
by Elizabeth Jennings.
Carcanet, 386 pp., £9.95, February 2002,1 85754 559 1 Show More
by Elizabeth Jennings.
Carcanet, 386 pp., £9.95, February 2002,
“... or ‘The Bonnie Broukit Bairn’, or with some of the brief, brilliant lyrics of Mandelstam or Celan. Yet Mandelstam or Celan might have made it too ringingly portentous; instead, it is as light and as true and beautifully ordered as Sappho on the evening star. Most of Jennings’s work does not operate in this intensely ... ”