| Anne Stevenson, inaugural winner of the Northern Rock Writers Award in 2002, was born in England of American parents in 1933 and educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her father was professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan. After graduating with honours from Michigan, she moved to Great Britain where, claiming citizenship, she has lived for most of her life. From 1974 through 1996 OUP published eight collections of her poems. Since 2000, Bloodaxe Books has published three more, including a new and substantial Poems 1955-2005. Anne Stevenson is also the author of Bitter Fame, A Life of Sylvia Plath, and of two critical studies of Elizabeth Bishop.
Part 1 A Tribe
1 Poem for a Daughter 2.24
2 The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument 2.12
3 The Suburb 2.26
4 The Mother 0.29
5 The Victory 1.06
6 By the Boathouse, Oxford 1.28
7 Path 1.24
8 Transparencies 3.02
9 A Surprise on the First Day of School 1.05
10 Innocence and Experience 1.38
11 A Marriage 1.31
12 Arioso Dolente 4.21
Part 2 A War
13 Sous-entendu 1.17
14 Swifts 3.13
15 Enough of Green 1.08
16 In the Tunnel of Summers 1.37
17 North Sea off Carnoustie 1.52
18 Still Life in Utah 1.11
19 If I Could Paint Essences 1.54
20 The Wind, the Sun and the Moon 1.32
21 Leaving 2.15
22 Why Take Against Mythology (1) 2.49
23 Why Take Against Mythology (2) 1.16
Part 3 A Time
24 The Writer in the Corner 2.15
25 The Fiction-Makers 2.49
26 Small Philosophical Poem 1.32
27 Willow Song 2.21
28 Granny Scarecrow 1.48
29 When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye 1.09
30 Impromptu in C Minor 5.23
31 On Going Deaf 0.30
32 Talking Sense to my Senses 1.12
33 Who's Joking with the Photographer? 3.31
34 Terrorist 1.24
35 Making Poetry 1.26
Total length of the recording 67.12
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