Winner of the Northern Rock
Foundation Writer's Award 2002
  

 
 
Anne Stevenson has been interviewed by the Library of America .

You can find out more at the American Poets Project site , or, download the full interview here (PDF | 21k).
 

 
Anne Stevensons' Selected Poems edited by Andrew Motion, published by The Library of America. Read more at Poetry Daily .

Selected Poems    Poetry Daily
 
 
A GOLDEN FALL 2007 FOR ANNE STEVENSON
TRIPLE US HONOURS FOR BRITISH-BASED AMERCIAN POET

The American lyric poet Anne Stevenson, who has lived in Britain for over 40 years and whose 14th poetry collection Stone Milk was recently published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books, has received the third in a trio of honours from her native country this autumn. It was announced yesterday, 8 November, that she has been awarded the $200,000 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry by the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe, in recognition of her significant contribution to English-language literature.

Read the full press release here.  (PDF | 20kb)
 
   
Stone Milk Anne Stevenson, 'Stone Milk'

"I think of Stone Milk as my final book, my swan song. But then, I talk as often about giving up writing poetry as I do about giving up whisky, and I never quite succeed in doing either."
Anne Stevenson

Published by Bloodaxe Books on Sept. 10th, 2007
   
Read the December 2007 Times online article on Anne Stevenson here.
Anne Stevenson's Wikipedia entry can be found here.
Listen to Anne Stevenson read selected poems here.
Anne Stevenson interviewed on BBC Radio 4 programme 'Woman's Hour'.
   
Anne Stevenson Poems 1955-2005 Book Cover Anne Stevenson, 'Poems 1955-2005'

Poems 1955-2000 is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Collected Poems, drawing on over a dozen previous collections as well as new poems, with this book's new thematic arrangements emphasising the craft, coherence and architecture of her life's work.

Published by Bloodaxe Books on June 23rd, 2005
 
Read the October 2004 Guardian online profile of Anne Stevenson here.
   
A Report from the Border - Anne Stevenson New volume of poetry,
'A Report from the Border'
published by Bloodaxe Books.

Anne Stevenson's new collection crosses many borders. While her title-poem mocks borders dividing rich nations from poor, its subtext undermines the public language of political self-justification, suggesting that the true dimensions of morality can be approached best through literature.
 


Inaugural winner of the £60,000
Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award in April, 2002.

Anne Stevenson, poet, critic and biographer, grew up in post World War II United States and came to England in the 1950s. Daughter of the American philosopher C.L. Stevenson, her work is distinguished for what C.B. McCully has called its 'passionate thinking' and Elizabeth Jennings, 'a sturdy backbone of intellectual vigour... ' Of her SELECTED POEMS (1987) Peter Levi wrote, 'Stevenson's style is capable of a terse brilliance which is like moral wit, and also of a long and beautiful movement of language, but there is always the same surprising and hard-bitten objectivity about it...She is one of the greatest women artists in the country.' Reviewing GRANNY SCARECROW for the TLS in December, Gerard Woodward commented, 'Stevenson has matured into one of the most intelligent, assured, vivid and skilful poets writing today.'

 Granny Scarecrow - Anne Stevenson

Prose Books by Anne Stevenson

ELIZABETH BISHOP (Twayne, USA, 1966)

BITTER FAME, A LIFE OF SYLVIA PLATH (Viking, Houghton Mifflin, 1989)

BETWEEN THE ICEBERG AND THE SHIP: SELECTED ESSAYS
(University of Michigan Press, 1998)

FIVE LOOKS AT ELIZABETH BISHOP (Bloodaxe Books, 2007)
 
   
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