Bøger af Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson was one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Completing the Circle is a swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations written in her 80s. It was her third collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005, and follows two other late collections, Stone Milk (2007) and Astonishment (2012).

Seven lectures by one of Britain's leading poets tracing the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s.

'In the Orchard' is not so much a collection of poems about birds as a book of memories and rare moments in which a number of familiar birds have played a spark-like role in bringing poems about. They are chiefly lyrical in character and range in time from 'Resurrection' written over fifty years ago to recent poems like 'The Bully Thrush'.

The poems of Stone Milk address the way the written word preserves yet distorts the lives depending on it for fame or survival. Anne Stevenson's engaging new collection opens with A Lament for the Makers, an experimental sequence based on medieval dream poetry that plays with a Dante-inspired yet modern, scientific vision of an underworld of poets.

Represents a view of her work Elizabeth Bishop herself would have recognised and approved. A chronology and a set of maps serve as practical guides to the poet's life and travels.

Anne Stevenson was a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. This is a remaking of her earlier Collected Poems, drawing on over a dozen previous collections as well as new poems.

Anne Stevenson was one of Britain's leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, was her second new collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005.