This posthumously published Collected Poems is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Poems 1955-2005 (2005), expanded to include poems from her final three books, Stone Milk (2007), Astonishment (2012) and Completing the Circle (2020), drawing on 16 collections.
Represents a view of her work Elizabeth Bishop herself would have recognised and approved. A chronology and a set of maps serve as practical guides to the poet's life and travels.
This is a retrospective by a British/American poet, winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award, Britain's biggest literary prize (worth GBP60,000).
A biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath which presents a different view of her life and death by shifting any blame away from Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and suggesting the problems lay in her personality difficulties.