Anne Stevenson
Standard Name: Stevenson, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Katharine Stevenson
AS
is an important contemporary poet, an heir to both the US and the British traditions. She experimented with drama and fiction early in her career. She writes fine criticism, and has edited the poems of others.
Connections
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death | Frances Horovitz | On 3 December her friends and family held a Frances Horovitz Memorial Celebration at the Young Vic Theatre. Harold Pinter
, Anne Stevenson
, Roger Garfitt
, Michael Horovitz
, and others read, sang, and performed her poetry. Horovitz, Michael, and Frances Horovitz. A Celebration of and for Frances Horovitz (1938-1983). New Departures, 1984. 2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Byron | Michael Farley
, editor of Taxus Press
, left his wife, poet Anne Stevenson
, and came to Leicester, where he lived with CB
for three years. Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett. |
Friends, Associates | Frances Horovitz | Among FH
's literary friends were poets or writers Anne Stevenson
, Harold Pinter
, Henry Williamson
, Gillian Clarke
, Kathleen Raine
, Dom Sylvester Houédard
, Inge Laird
, Jeff Nuttall
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes
survived Plath's death. RF
later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill
sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Bishop | In 1963 EB
began a new friendship with the American-British poet Anne Stevenson
. Stevenson wrote to Bishop, having undertaken to produce a monograph on her for the Twayne
series, and a rich epistolary relationship developed. Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 175 -00. 198 |
Health | Frances Horovitz | FH
was diagnosed with cancer after having gone to the doctor for severe ear pain. Sources disagree on what kind of cancer she had, but Anne Stevenson
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Kantaris | The poems here are full of places—real ones, like St Ives, Zennor, a rain-forest in Queensland, Australia; also the dystopias of Snapshotland (where everyone is happy all the time.) Kantaris, Sylvia. The Sea at the Door. Secker and Warburg, 1985. 4 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Dickinson | Among our contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich
has offered this reading of ED
's life and works: Emily Dickinson—viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as partially cracked, by the twentieth century as fey or... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Dickinson | Because of the extent to which ED
's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among... |
Literary responses | Penelope Shuttle | The poet Anne Stevenson
, whose review offered these summaries of Shuttle's imagery, marvelled at the vulnerability of a dead-serious poetic voice(without the defences of aggression, wit, irony, mockery or word-play) Stevenson, Anne. “Hearing the downpour”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4059, p. 65. 65 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | Sylvia Plath
, who began with negative comments about EB
, later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore
who is her godmother. Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42 -62. 44 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Bishop | The strength of EB
's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion
, Seamus Heaney
, James Fenton
, and Eavan Boland
, and during the 1990s... |
Literary responses | Judith Kazantzis | Fellow-poet Anne Stevenson
found here a tenderness and a wry insight. Judith Kazantzis. |
Literary responses | Gillian Clarke | GC
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been awarded an honorary MA from the University of Wales
. She was made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth
, Cardiff
and Swansea College |
Literary responses | Medbh McGuckian | Single Ladies was most enthusiastically reviewed by Anne Stevenson
in the Times Literary Supplement. She judged MMG
's talent too original to be spoiled by the praise or misunderstanding of critics: her successes are... |
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