Poetry Book Society

This volume was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.Janet Montefiore regrets the absence of EJS from Robin Skelton 's anthology New Verse, 1964, while acknowledging that it would be unfair to blame Skelton...

Again, this book was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.A reviewer noted the use in these poems of kennings and of slate-sharp stress patterns.

Alan Brownjohn , in a review for the Sunday Times, noted with a clear reminiscence of The Swan's Feet the tough talent at work under the surface calm. This too was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

She also edited the Poetry Book society anthology for this year, which appeared in November.

HD published a volume of poetry entitled Glad of These Times, which was welcomed by the Poetry Book Society as combining delicate, exact, surprising language and very strong thought.

GA published a new book of poetry, Lintel, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society selection.

PS published with Oxford University Press her Selected Poems, 1980-1996, which was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.