I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. Anne Stevenson 21stcenturyglad Change image and share on social
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. Anne Stevenson complicatecondensedeal share on social
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. Anne Stevenson emotionfeelinghope Change image and share on social
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson bearpoemread Change image and share on social
Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages. Anne Stevenson agesonnetvariety Change image and share on social
Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure. Anne Stevenson accountbackbath Change image and share on social
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. Anne Stevenson explainmeditationnaturally Change image and share on social
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. Anne Stevenson childcottagedurham Change image and share on social
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. Anne Stevenson americanblakebook Change image and share on social
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. Anne Stevenson bookcomplexityend Change image and share on social
