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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ketaki Kushari Dyson
The essays in this volume date from 1977-1985 and cover a wide range of topics, including an autobiographical essay on Dyson's path to becoming a poet, an essay on Jesus , and a critical look...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text U. A. Fanthorpe
The title poem is Queueing for the Sun in Walbrook. Some of her subjects here are literary: a poem about Boethius , another about Ben Jonson 's visit to Drummond of Hawthornden , a...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .
Textual Production Kathleen Nott
Lewis founded and ran this small private press, whose archive is now held by Reading University . Other poets in the Keepsake Chapbooks series included Karen Gershon and Anne Stevenson .
Textual Production Frances Bellerby
Both FB 's Selected Poems (edited by Anne Stevenson ) and her Selected Stories (edited by Jeremy Hooker ) were published by Enitharmon Press in 1986.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Jo Shapcott
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...
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB 's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This...
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...
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...
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.
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...

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Texts

Stevenson, Anne. Astonishment. Bloodaxe , 2012.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame. Viking, 1989.
Stevenson, Anne. Black Grate Poems. Inky Parrot Press, 1985.
Stevenson, Anne. Collected Poems, 1955-1995. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Stevenson, Anne. Correspondences: A Family History in Letters. Wesleyan University Press, 1974.
Stevenson, Anne. Elizabeth Bishop. Twayne, 1966.
Stevenson, Anne. Enough of Green. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Stevenson, Anne. Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop. Bellew, 1998.
Stevenson, Anne. Four and A Half Dancing Men. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Stevenson, Anne. Granny Scarecrow. Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
Stevenson, Anne. “Hearing the downpour”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4059, p. 65.
Stevenson, Anne. In the Orchard—Poems with Birds. Enitharmon Press, 2016.
Stevenson, Anne. “Inheriting My Grandmother’s Nightmare”. Poetry, Vol.
190
, No. 2, pp. 92-3.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
Stevenson, Anne. “Is the Emperor of Ice-Cream Wearing Clothes?”. New Review, p. 43.
Stevenson, Anne. “Letter”. Poetry, Vol.
189
, No. 3, pp. 244-5.
Stevenson, Anne, and X. J. Kennedy. Living in America. Generation Press, 1965.
Stevenson, Anne. Minute by Glass Minute. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Stevenson, Anne. Poems 1955-2005. Bloodzxe, 2005.
Stevenson, Anne. Reversals. Wesleyan University Press, 1969.
Bellerby, Frances, and Robert Gittings. Selected Poems. Editor Stevenson, Anne, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Stevenson, Anne. The Fiction-Makers. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stevenson, Anne. “The Geographical Mirror”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 31-41.