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.
Photograph of Anne Stevenson, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a collared shirt, made of multicoloured velvet fabric that blends dark blue, red, and green. She is wearing wire rimmed glasses and a necklace made of copper-coloured metal, and large red stones. Her hair is jaw length and grey.

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Literary responses Sheenagh Pugh
Anne Stevenson , in a poetry review in the Times Literary Supplement, gave two sentences to this as one of three recently published books that are in danger of slipping by unnoticed. She credited...
Literary responses Sheenagh Pugh
Again the Times Literary Supplement reviewer, two years after publication, was Anne Stevenson . She called the set on a ruined earth carefully angled, unimpassioned, bitterly ironic descriptions of what we ought to cherish on...
Literary responses Sheenagh Pugh
Another poet of Wales, Anne Stevenson , recording the fact SP has sometimes been criticised for thinking in a masculine manner, commented: Good for Shelagh Pugh!
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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SP herself, recording another charge against her, that...
Literary responses Carol Rumens
Baby Baby Baby won first prize in the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2003.
Rumens, Carol. Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
The volume appeared with praise from distinguished quarters. Anne Stevenson called CRone of the few women poets writing today whose...
Literary responses Seamus Heaney
Denis Donoghue in the New York Times Book Review called this the most eloquent and far-reaching book that SH had written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of...
Literary responses E. J. Scovell
Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens (who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility),
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Anne Stevenson ,...
Author summary Elizabeth Bishop
EB , a leading US poet of the later twentieth century, published six volumes of poetry during her lifetime, of which several collect writing already published. Her prose included translations, essays, a travel book, and...
Reception Eavan Boland
This article provoked a literary row. Anne Stevenson wrote a rejoinder to it in PN Review number 88, where she voiced admiring respect for EB 's poems, but took issue with with what she read...
Reception Frances Horovitz
FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...
Reception Gillian Clarke
Reviewers of this book included Anne Stevenson . Letting in the Rumour, which followed in 1989, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was reviewed by Sheenagh Pugh .
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer.
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Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm.
Residence Elaine Feinstein
By the time the Feinsteins were married they were living in rooms above the bridge in Mill Road, Cambridge (where Arnold was now doing a PhD). Before their first son was born they moved to...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
Anne Stevenson argues that this book marked a shift away from conceits towards personal reminiscence.
Stevenson, Anne. “The Geographical Mirror”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 31-41.
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In fact, however, some poems in EB 's previous collection were suffused with the familiarity of remembered things. In...
Textual Features Frances Horovitz
Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson , who died in 1981.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Winifred Nicholson
Its heavily-symbolic title paradoxically suggests both life and death; it expresses a foreboding sense of the latter...
Textual Features Ruth Padel
RP takes the journey as the most central of all poetic images. The first part of her book is a guide to reading poetry, divided under headings of which many include the words journey,...
Textual Features Carol Rumens
Many of the additional poems bring new richness and emotion to styles and themes she has made her own. The landscapes now subjected to visual, social and political scrutiny are Welsh. Baby Baby Baby...

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Texts

Stevenson, Anne. The Other House. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Stevenson, Anne. Travelling Behind Glass. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Stevenson, Anne. Winter Time. Mid Northumberland Arts Group, 1986.