Collected Poems by Anne Stevenson poets before the Innti poets –

before the Innti poets – Michael Davitt

sceptical poems are surreal mini-dramas often pivoting on paradoxes

a tubular coolness we must praise again and again’ – Tom Paulin

as well as his self-designated “posthumous” poems

Collected Poems by Anne Stevenson poets before the Innti poets –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. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of