Bloodaxe Books | Anne Stevenson’s daughter Carrie Hitchcock reads two poems from Correspondences @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
Recorded by Neil Astley at St Chad's College, Durham on 1st March 2023.
Two poems from Correspondences (1974)
from Anne Stevenson: Collected Poems (2023)
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/collected-poems-1312
Poems:
From an Asylum: Kathy Chattle to her mother Ruth Arbeiter
A daughter’s difficulties as a wife: Mrs Reuben Chandler to her mother in New Orleans
Anne Stevenson (1933-2020) was a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. 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), drawing on sixteen collections which are presented in their original order of publication.
Recorded by Neil Astley at St Chad's College, Durham on 1st March 2023.
Two poems from Correspondences (1974)
from Anne Stevenson: Collected Poems (2023)
bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/collected-poems-1312
Poems:
From an Asylum: Kathy Chattle to her mother Ruth Arbeiter
A daughter’s difficulties as a wife: Mrs Reuben Chandler to her mother in New Orleans
Anne Stevenson (1933-2020) was a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. 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), drawing on sixteen collections which are presented in their original order of publication.
