Anne Stevenson

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...

Fellow-poet Anne Stevenson found here a tenderness and a wry insight.

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...

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

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...

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...

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!SP herself, recording another charge against her, that...

Baby Baby Baby won first prize in the Peterloo Poetry Competition in 2003. The volume appeared with praise from distinguished quarters. Anne Stevenson called CRone of the few women poets writing today whose...

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...

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),Anne Stevenson ,...

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) which makes...

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.Fleur Adcock notes...

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...

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.) and...

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...