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Anne Stevenson

New British Poetry: An Anthology

Spring 1987

Naming the Flowers

By Anne Stevenson

makes no difference to the flowers. These inside out parasols, orb webs on crooked needles, gray filmy cups in the clockwork of summer goatsbeard are to themselves not "seeds," not […]

New British Poetry: An Anthology

Spring 1987

Jarrow¹

By Anne Stevenson

Would want to paint them, those town-bright boys at the dead end of the track where it coils down away from church and mound leaving almost an island, as it […]