Anne Stevenson, Stone Milk

Ian Gordon (Anglia Ruskin University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2007

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

Resources

Stone Milk (2007) is Anne Stevenson’s seventeenth separate collection of new poems, the first to be published since A Report from the Border (2003). It falls into three, discrete parts:

1. A Lament for the Makers, pp. 11-32. A long dream poem.
2. Stone Milk, pp. 34-52. A collection of sixteen shorter poems.
3. The Myth of Medea, pp. 54-71. A dramatic entertainment.

The volume as a whole is dedicated “in loving memory of Susan Cooper” [Stevenson’s husband’s sister], who died the year before it was published.

A Lament for the Makers is a dream poem featuring the poet, Peter Redgrove (1932-2003), guiding the author “through the underworld, or, rather, …

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Citation: Gordon, Ian. "Stone Milk". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 March 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=31618, accessed 20 May 2024.]

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