Collected Poems by Anne Stevenson Helen Burke Rees-Jones here consolidates and concentrates

Rees-Jones here consolidates and concentrates her powers with poems that confront personal tragedy: the loss of a husband to cancer

"In dialogue with Celan

politic and impolitic

street corners – into sites of intense significance that weigh heavily on the modern mind

of a sound

Collected Poems by Anne Stevenson Helen Burke Rees-Jones here consolidates and concentratesAnne 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. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of