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
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
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)
Stevenson, Anne. “Hearing the downpour”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4059, p. 65.
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which makes...
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...
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 ,...
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...
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 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...
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 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 .
Literary responses 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...
Literary responses Judith Kazantzis
Fellow-poet Anne Stevenson found here a tenderness and a wry insight.
Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence Sylvia Kantaris
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.)
Kantaris, Sylvia. The Sea at the Door. Secker and Warburg.
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and...
Friends, Associates Frances Horovitz
Among FH 's literary friends were poets or writers Anne Stevenson , Harold Pinter , Henry Williamson , Gillian Clarke , Kathleen Raine , Dom Sylvester Houédard , Inge Laird , Jeff Nuttall , and...
death Frances Horovitz
On 3 December her friends and family held a Frances Horovitz Memorial Celebration at the Young Vic Theatre. Harold Pinter , Anne Stevenson , Roger Garfitt , Michael Horovitz , and others read, sang, and performed her poetry.
Horovitz, Michael, and Frances Horovitz. A Celebration of and for Frances Horovitz (1938-1983). New Departures.
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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.