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
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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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...
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...
Literary responses Seamus Heaney
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...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Ruth Fainlight
The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes survived Plath's death. RF later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Dickinson
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Dickinson
Because of the extent to which ED 's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among...
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 .
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.
Literary responses Gillian Clarke
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
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Byron
Michael Farley , editor of Taxus Press , left his wife, poet Anne Stevenson , and came to Leicester, where he lived with CB for three years.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett.
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...

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Texts

Stevenson, Anne. The Other House. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Stevenson, Anne. Travelling Behind Glass. Oxford University Press, 1974.
Stevenson, Anne. Winter Time. Mid Northumberland Arts Group, 1986.