Linda Anderson

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...

Sarah Peel in City Limits called this volume poetry of intuitive intelligence: a massive achievement.Linda Anderson singled out From the Third Storey when she later reviewed UAF 's Selected Poems for Writing Women.

Linda Anderson points out the cow's pleasure in apparent chaos, not caring that her creative rush may look foolish. In her first poem she begins her unrhymed ten-line speech with I love the staggers. Suddenly...

Linda Anderson observes how Shapcott's roses-as-female-genitalia, talking back to the male poet writing about them, exemplify the way that JS 's poems often give voice to objects or creatures which talk back to their creators...

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...

In 1999 JS and Don Paterson jointly edited Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century. In 2002 she and Linda Anderson together edited Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, the first book...