Passionate renewal: Jewish poetry in Britain since 1945--an anthology

by Peter Lawson

Passionate Renewal celebrates poetry written by British Jews since 1945. Twenty poets have been selected from among the most significant voices, The subjects covered include family and home, love and friendship, Judaism and secularism, the Holocaust and resistance to oppression... but each poet considers these themes in widely different ways. This is the first anthology of Jewish poetry in Britain and a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. The poets included Dannie Abse, Richard Burns, Ruth Fainlight, Elaine Feinstein, Karen Gershon, Michael Hamburger, Philip Hobsbaum, Michael Horovitz, A.C. Jacobs, Bernard Kops, Lotte Kramer, Joanne Limburg, Emanuel Litvinoff, Gerda Mayer, Jeremy Robson, Michael Rosen, Jon Silkin, George Szirtes, Jonathan Treitel and Daniel Weissbort.

354 pages, Paperback

First published March 6, 2001