Jeni Couzyn published her Selected Poems, Life by Drowning, with Bloodaxe in 1985, drawing on work from her collections Flying (1970), Monkeys’ Wedding (1972), Christmas in Africa (1975) and House of Changes (1978), as well as new poems. She edited The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets (1985) and the Livewire teenage anthology Singing Down the Bones (Women’s Press, 1989). She lives in London.