Collected Poems / Anne Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (724 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

Anne Stevenson's Collected Poems draws on sixteen previous collections to showcase the work of this major American and British poet. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of serious humour. Her posthumously published Collected Poems is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Poems 1955-2005 (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), expanded to include poems from her final three books, Stone Milk (2007), Astonishment (2012) and Completing the Circle (2020).

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Note on the Text

Source Texts

from Living in America (1965)

The Traveller

The Women

To My Daughter in a Red Coat

Living in America

Harvard

Fairy Tale

In Winter

Love

The Garden of Intellect

Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Hut

Two Quatrains

Still Life in Utah

Nightmare in North Carolina

Nuns

Ann Arbor (A Profile)

In March

After Her Death

Apology

The Dear Ladies of Cincinnati

Opera Piece

Sierra Nevada

The Grey Land

from Reversals (1970)

'Birth'

Reversals

Aubade

Sous-entendu

On Not Being Able to Look at the Moon

Two Love Poems

In the House

The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument

Stabilities

The Victory

The Suburb

The Loss

New York

The Watchers

The Takeover

The Unhappened

Morning

One Sunday

England

Fen People

In Middle England

The Return

The Mother

A River

American Rhetoric for Scotland

from Travelling Behind Glass: Selected Poems (1974)

Siskin

Generations

At Thirteen

Coming Back to Cambridge

Theme with Variations

Five Poems of Innocence and Experience

The Crush

The Marriage

The Affair

The Demolition

Old Scholars

Travelling Behind Glass

On the Edge of the Island

Correspondences (1974)

Correspondences: A Family History in Letters

from Enough of Green (1977)

To Write It

The Sun Appears in November

North Sea off Carnoustie

The Exhibition

East Coast

Fire and the Tide

Summer

The Bench

Boating Pool at Night

Winter Flowers

The Lighthouse

Night Wind, Dundee

Aberdeen

The Mudtower

Path

With My Sons at Boarhills

By the Boat House, Oxford

Ruin

Posted

Wanted

Drought

Ragwort

The Minister

The Doctor

Enough of Green

A Summer Place.

People Around

Early Rain

Respectable House

Meniscus

Resurrection

The Sirens Are Virtuous

In the Orchard

Cain

Temporarily in Oxford

The Price

Thales and Li Po

After the End of It

from Minute By Glass Minute (1982)

If I Could Paint Essences

Buzzard and Alder

Burnished (A Riddle)

Swifts

The Three

The Garden

Himalayan Balsam

At Kilpeck Church

Walking Early by the Wye

After the Fall

Whose Goat?

Giving Rabbit to My Cat Bonnie

The Fish Are All Sick

Pennine

Ah Babel

From the Men of Letters

Small Philosophical Poem

He and It (A Pathetic Fantasy)

The Figure in the Carpet

About Crying

Poem for a Daughter

The Holly and the Ivy

Transparencies

Lockkeeper's Island

Earth Station

The Man in the Wind

Sonnets for Five Seasons

This House

Complaint

Between

Statis

The Circle

from The Fiction-Makers (1985)

From an Unfinished Poem

The Fiction-Makers

Making Poetry

Waving to Elizabeth

Re-reading Jane

The Blue Pool

Shale

A Dream of Stones

Where the Animals Go

Musician's Widow

Gannets Diving

Ailanthus with Ghosts

Two Poems for Frances Horovitz

Red Rock Fault

Willow Song

Demolition

A Prayer to Live with Real People

Forgotten of the Foot

Signs

In the Tunnel of Summers

Gales

Spring Song

On Watching a Cold Woman Wade into a Cold Sea

Household Gods

November

Claude Glass

Epitaph for a Good Mouser

Divorcing

Hands

Dreaming of the Dead

from Winter Time (1986)

Jarrow

From the Primrose Path

This

A Love Sequence

The Morden Angel

Naming the Flowers

from The Other House (1990)

In the Nursery

The Other House

Talking Sense to My Senses

Elegy

What I Miss

Inverkirkaig

Icon

Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor.

North Easter: April, 1986

Night Walking with Shadows

Night Thoughts and False Confessions

And even then

Call them Poppies

'All Canal Boat Cruises Start Here

Inquit Deus

From the Motorway

Stone Fig

Cramond

Celebrity

Eros

Three Poems for Sylvia Plath

Nightmares, Daymoths

Letter to Sylvia Plath

Hot Wind, Hard Rain

Seven Poems after Francis Bacon

1 Study for a Portrait on a Folding Bed

2 Study of a Dog

3 Three Figures and Portrait

4 Seated Figure

5 Portrait of a Lady

6 Triptych

7 Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh

Journal Entry: Ward's Island

Little Paul and the Sea

Calendar

from Four and a Half Dancing Men (1993)

Salter's Gate

From My Study

Cold

Brueghel's Snow

Four and a Half Dancing Men

Washing the Clocks

Negatives

The Professor's Tale

Hans Memling's Sibylla Sambetha (1480)

Politesse

A Quest

Trinity at Low Tide

Visits to the Cemetery of the Long Alive

Hadrian's

A Sepia Garden

Bloody Bloody

Black Hole

Lost

A Tricksy June

To witness pain is a different form of pain

Binoculars in Ardudwy

When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye

Painting It In

Late

Terrorist

Two Poems for John Cole and One for Annabel Cole

Dinghy

Cambrian

After You Left

from The Collected Poems 1955-1995 (1996)

Occasional verses

The Parson and the Romany

Ballad of the Made Maid

from Granny Scarecrow (2000)

I

Vertigo

Innocence and Experience

The White Room

A Surprise on the First Day of School

Going Back

John Keats, 1821-1950

Arioso Dolente

'Love Stories and a Bed of Sand'

II

Moonrise

Clydie is dead!

Incident

Suicide

Skills

An Angel

Granny Scarecrow

Freeing Lizzie

Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Pity the Birds

Comet

The Wrekin.

False Flowers

Kosovo Surprised by Mozart

Leaving

Old Wife's Tale

On Going Deaf

A Luxury

Oysters

The Theologian's Confession

Whistler's Gentleman by the Sea

III

A Parable for Norman

Poem for Harry Fainlight

Invocation and Interruption

A Present

The Name of the Worm

The Miracle of Camp 60

A Ballad for Apothecaries

Postscriptum

from A Report from the Border (2003)

Who's Joking with the Photographer?

The Writer in the Corner

Washing My Hair

Two Poems for Nerys Johnson

Portrait of the Artist in an Orthopaedic Halo Crowned with Flowers

Passing Her House

Red Hot Sex

Haunted

Passifloraceae

A Marriage

Hearing with My Fingers

At the Grave of Ezra Pound

Skin Deep

Cashpoint Charlie

A Hot Night in New York

New York Is Crying

A Cradle of Fist

Clovenhoof 's-bane

A Report from the Border

Branch Line

A Tourists' Guide to the Fens

Carol of the Birds

To Phoebe

Questionable

Prophylactic Sonnets

The Inn

Some Poems from Cwm Nantcol

The Wind, the Sun and the Moon

The Unaccommodated

Under Moelfre

Why Take Against Mythology? (1)

Why Take Against Mythology? (2)

Attacking the Waterfall

Spring Poem

Without Me

May Bluebells, Coed Aber Artro

Green Mountain, Black Mountain

from Poems 1955-2005 (2005)

A Riddle for Peter Scupham

In the Weather of Deciduous Souls

An Impenitent Ghost

Fool's Gold

17.14 Out of Newcastle

It looks so simple from a distance…

Four Grim Fairy Tales

1 Rapunzel

2 Sleeping Beauty

3 Was Cinderella Ever Happy?

4 If Wishes Were Fishes

Christmas Comfort and the Green Man

As I Lay Sleeping

Killing Spiders

Melon meaning melon

Toy

Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove

from Stone Milk (2007).

Prelude from Piers Plowman

A Lament for the Makers

Near the End of a Day

Stone Milk

Before Eden

The Enigma

Waving Goodbye

Orcop

Inheriting My Grandmother's Nightmare

An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything

Jet Lag

City Lights

Beach Kites

The Blackbird at Pwllymarch

from Astonishment (2012)

The Loom

Constable Clouds and a Kestrel's Feather

Bird in Hand

Teaching My Sons to Swim in Walden Pond

Night Thoughts

Paper

On Line

An Exchange in the Time Bank

II Sonnets and Variations

It's astonishing

Doppler

After the Funeral

Elegy: In Coherent Light

The Miracle of the Bees and the Foxgloves

The Master and His Cast

Not a Hook, Not a Shelf, Maybe a Song?

How it is

The Voice

Caring More Than Caring

Carols in King's

III Ardudwy

'Wind from the North…'

Night Snow

Thaw

Spring Diary

Arrival Dream

Snow Squalls

North Easter

A Clearer Memory

Then like a present

On Harlech Beach

Drench

On Reflection

October Song

Goat Cull in Cwm Nancol

Roses in December

IV

Photographing Change

In the Museum of Floating Bodies and Flammable Souls

All Those Attempts in the Changing Room

Tulips

The Password

Five Poems in Memory of a Marriage

A Match

After Words

Hotel New Year

Epitaph for a Hedonist

A Visit

Demeter and Her Daughter

Spring Again

Notes

from Completing the Circle (2020)

Preface

Saying the World

Anaesthesia

Poppy Day

Sandi Russell Sings

Defeating the Gloom Monster

A Dream of Guilt

Improvisation

Completing the Circle

Ann Arbor Days

The Day

Choose to be a Rainbow

How Poems Arrive

Dover Beach Reconsidered

The Bully Thrush

Winter Idyll from My Back Window

Goodbye &amp

Cheers

Shared

Voice Over

Candles.

A Compensation of Sorts.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Stevenson, Anne Collected Poems

ISBN:

9781780376523

OCLC:

1370495796