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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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 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 .
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...

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