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To arrive at a true understanding of Anne
Stevenson's poetry, you have to go deep. In fact, the Deep is a very good place to start. Jutting into the Humber estuary like a vast steel fin, the Deep is Hull's impressive new aquatic attraction – where you expect to find tropical fish rather than topical
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Hopwood Poets Revisited: Eighteen Major Award Winners;" features an original essay by Anne Stevenson, in the form of a letter to anthology editor Donald Beagle, recalling the impact and aftermath of her Hopwood "Major Poetry" Award at the University of Michigan, and featuring reflections on the
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Stevenson married a childhood friend but her romantic ideals dissolved and the marriage was not a success. She noted that "it took me two unhappy marriages and three children to make me reconsider my assumptions." In the 1960s she lived and wrote in
Cambridge, Glasgow, Dundee and Oxford. She was
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poetry – yet the first thing the visitor sees, before descending to the bottom of Europe's deepest tank, is a line by
Stevenson: "The sea is as near as we come to another world."
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Voyages over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson
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379:Cliff Walk: A Poem, with a drawing by Anne Newnham
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