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…
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