Granny Scarcrow is full of ideas, but the author approaches them by looking intently at small things and seemingly insignificant events. He creates poetry of psychological insight, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with a brand of serious humour.
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All There Was
An Angel
Arioso Dolente
A Ballad For Apothecaries
Burning The News
Clydie Is Dead!
Comet
False Flowers
Freeing Lizzie
Going Back
Granny Scarecrow
Incident
Innocence And Experience
Invocation And Interruption [in Memoriam Ted Hughes]
John Keats, 1821-1950
Kosovo Surprised By Mozart
Leaving
'love Stories And A Bed Of Sand'
A Luxury
The Miracle Of Camp 60
Moonrise
Morning Exercise
The Name Of The Worm
Old Wife's Tale
On Going Deaf
Oysters
A Parable For Norman
Phoenicurus Phoenicurus
Pity The Birds
Poem For Harry Fainlight
Postscriptum
A Present
Sarajevo, June 28, 1914
Skills
Suicide
A Surprise On The First Day Of School
The Theologian's Confession
To Witness Pain Is A Different Form Of Pain
Vertigo
Whistler's Gentleman By The Sea
The White Room
Why Take Against Mythology?
The Wrekin
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
An Angel
Arioso Dolente
A Ballad For Apothecaries
Burning The News
Clydie Is Dead!
Comet
False Flowers
Freeing Lizzie
Going Back
Granny Scarecrow
Incident
Innocence And Experience
Invocation And Interruption [in Memoriam Ted Hughes]
John Keats, 1821-1950
Kosovo Surprised By Mozart
Leaving
'love Stories And A Bed Of Sand'
A Luxury
The Miracle Of Camp 60
Moonrise
Morning Exercise
The Name Of The Worm
Old Wife's Tale
On Going Deaf
Oysters
A Parable For Norman
Phoenicurus Phoenicurus
Pity The Birds
Poem For Harry Fainlight
Postscriptum
A Present
Sarajevo, June 28, 1914
Skills
Suicide
A Surprise On The First Day Of School
The Theologian's Confession
To Witness Pain Is A Different Form Of Pain
Vertigo
Whistler's Gentleman By The Sea
The White Room
Why Take Against Mythology?
The Wrekin
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
About the Author
Ann Stevenson, born in England af American parents, grew up in the states but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. She has published twelve collections of poetry, a book of essays, between the iceberg and the ship (1998), a recent critical study, five looks at Elizabeth Bishop (1998) and a biography of ?Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame (1989). Granny Scarcrow is her first new collection since The Collected Poems 1955-1995.
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