Astonishment

Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Anne Stevenson is one of Britain''s leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, is her second new collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005. Taking its title from Derek Walcott''s line, ''The perpetual ideal is astonishment'', Anne Stevenson''s sixteenth collection of poems looks back over eighty years of ...