With Amy Clampitt
and Craig Raine
, AS
selected and edited for the Arvon Foundation
the 1985 Anthology of poems from the Observer and Ronald Duncan Foundation International Poetry Competition. This anthology appeared in 1987...
Textual Features
Anne Stevenson
Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS
later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...
Reception
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...