The Fiction-Makers, 1985, was the fifth collection of Anne Stevenson’s poetry to be published by Oxford University Press. Dedicated to the memory of her friend and fellow-poet, Frances Horovitz, 1938-83, it contains thirty-nine new poems composed during the intervening three years, since Minute by Glass Minute, 1982. As in that volume, the poems cover a wide range of different genres and forms, most of them having been published first in various journals and periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, Stand, P N Review, the Observer, and Poetry Review, between 1982 and 1985. Fourteen of the poems had been published a year earlier, in a limited edition of three hundred and sixty copies, by the Inky Parrot Press, Oxford, under the title Black Grate Poems, accompanied with illustrations by Annie Newnham. “Willow Song”, Stevenson’s moving elegy...
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Citation: Gordon, Ian. "The Fiction-makers". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 April 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31605, accessed 09 June 2026.]
