Anne Stevenson, Travelling Behind Glass: Selected Poems 1963-1973

Ian Gordon (Anglia Ruskin University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1974

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

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Travelling Behind Glass

(1974) was Anne Stevenson’s third published collection of poems, but her first to be published in the UK. It is a slim, paperback volume of fifty-three pages, drawing on poems written during the previous ten years, dedicated to her three children, Caroline, John and Charles, published simultaneously by OUP with

Correspondences: A Family History in Letters.

Stevenson put the volume together during 1973-4, while she was working as the Compton Fellow of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and living at Tayport, midway between Dundee and St Andrews. The volume includes six poems from

Living in America,

1965; twenty-one from

Reversals,

1969; and twelve poems previously uncollected. Just under a third of the poems, then, are collected for the first time.

Of the

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Citation: Gordon, Ian. "Travelling Behind Glass: Selected Poems 1963-1973". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 January 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31600, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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