SOURCE: Review of Tributes, in Stand Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 4, Autumn, 1990, pp. 48-50.

In the following review, Sail cautions that Jennings risks bordering on mannerism in some of her work but proclaims that she is one of the greatest poets at capturing childhood.

Like Roy Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings knows the strength of ‘energy leashed in’, as she writes in one of the poems in Tributes. This new collection continues the reflective notes of her Collected Poems, sustaining a meditation on the nature of poetry and the other arts, especially music, and on love, faith, joy, sorrow, friendship, childhood and the passage of time. The preoccupation with music is dominant, so to speak, and there is a strong religious element in her affirmation of the artist as an instrument of God’s glory. The poems are entirely accessible, often intensely human in their vulnerability, and set firmly within the context...