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Alan Jenkins is Deputy Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a prize-winning poet. His 1994 collection, Harm, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and, in 2000, The Drift was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Books by Alan Jenkins

A Shorter Life

Best collection yet from Deputy Editor of the TLS. This is poetry as autobiography - a wonderfully poignant evocation of a genteel suburban upbringing, a wild youth and a regretful middle-age.

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The Drift

Brilliant new collection of poetry from a well-known poet whose last collection won the Forward prize.

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Harm

The new collection from one of the most engaging voices in contemporary poetry: a popular and accessible younger poet who reaches a wide audience.

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