Anne Stevenson

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Granny Scarecrow

Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson has always been a restless, questioning poet whose openness has ensured that each of her collections has been distinctive and challenging. Granny Scarecrow is characteristically full of ideas, but as always, Stevenson approaches them by looking intently at small things and seemingly insignificant events. In creating poetry of acute psychological insight, alert to all shades of meaning, she has managed to be incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of serious…

 
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