Anne Stevenson

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

Anne Stevenson argues that this book marked a shift away from conceits towards personal reminiscence. In fact, however, some poems in EB 's previous collection were suffused with the familiarity of remembered things. In...

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...

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,...

Flowers was written for the painter and writer Winnifred Nicholson , who died in 1981. Its heavily-symbolic title paradoxically suggests both life and death; it expresses a foreboding sense of the latter...