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Wallace Stevens

October 2016

  • ‘The veined blue / remembering of a breast, the scent of milk in that photograph’ … detail from tobacco health warning.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Ellipsis by Deryn Rees-Jones

    Babies and lost books feature in a poem that provocatively elides thought and sensation

September 2016

  • Sharon Olds, photographed at the Royal Festival Hall

    Sharon Olds wins $100,000 Wallace Stevens poetry award

    The American poet, who has also won the TS Eliot prize and the Pulitzer, is credited for her ‘outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry’

February 2014

  • Padstow bay

    Rick Gekoski: finger on the page
    Mots justes: pick the perfect word in a poem

    When poets get it right individual words can add volumes of sense to their work. Trying to fill in some of their blanks is a useful lesson in this fine art

October 2012

  • Vertigo by Anish Kapoor

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Pantoum in Which Wallace Stevens Gives Me Vertigo by Oli Hazzard

    This playful tribute to the imaginative power of poetry is also a dizzying demonstration of it

September 2010

  • Snow-covered window

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos

    Carol Rumens: This time, a striking contemporary poem whose apparent clarity conceals some intriguing mystery as it pays homage to Wallace Stevens

August 2010

  • Cif belief
    AS Byatt: 'I don't believe in God. I believe in Wallace Stevens'

    At this year's Edinburgh international book festival to discuss her novel, The Children's Book, AS Byatt spoke to Charlotte Higgins about religion, reality, her hatred of diaries and why she is eager for someone to write a novel about the discourse of Facebook and Twitter

April 2007

  • Books blog
    Poem of the day

    The third of our daily nods to National Poetry Month: some Wallace Stevens for your delectation.

July 2006

  • The war between mind and sky

    Jay Parini takes unholy communion with the incomparable Wallace Stevens.

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