In Praises Elizabeth Jennings celebrates. She brings into vision details of the daily world often overlooked - the pillow, the safety-pin, the bath-tap - as well as the world of passion, grief and love. Concerning History is her most ambitious extended poem to date, a meditation and an experiment in form. It is accompanied by lyric poems, elegies and the reflections of a writer always profoundly curious about the human creature with its spiritual dimensions.