Jennie Feldman was born in South Africa, grew up in London and graduated from Oxford, where she studied French. A Hawthornden Fellow, she lives in Jerusalem and Oxford. Her first collection, 'The Lost Notebook', was also published by Anvil, as were her translations from Jacques Reda, 'Treading Lightly: Selected Poems 1961-1975', and the bilingual anthology 'Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets 1938-2008', co-edited and translated with Stephen Romer and shortlisted for the Popescu Prize 2011.
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'In times and in places of casual, idle and very deliberate forgetting, these poems, so precise, sharp, sensuously present, answer back by remembering. They carry out their own injunction: "keep the small integrities / pass them on."' David Constantine 'a complex, subtle poet - Feldman treats the writing of poetry with respect, producing skilfully crafted poems where every word is chosen with care, and there is nothing superfluous' Belinda Cooke, Stride Magazine