Anne Stewart
Anne Stewart is a British poet, and also a reviewer, and provider of services to poets and poetry organisations.
Life
She has a 25 year career in Accounting, Project Management, Training & Mentoring, IT & Systems Development. She lives in Kent with partner, Richard Stern, an architectural technician.
In 2003, she was awarded an MA with Distinction from Creative Writing programme at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2005, was selected in the anthology "Ten Hallam Poets" published by Mews Press. The anthology attracted high praise from poets Don Paterson, Julia Darling, Helen Dunmore.
She had a Commended Poem at the 2005 Wigtown Poetry Competition. She was the winner of the 2008 Bridport Prize with a ‘nice little sonnet’, Still Water, Orange, Apple, Tea".
Judge, David Harsent, said of it "…what marks it out is the way this emotional commonplace is adapted to language … no line lacked a surprise … I liked its briskness – celebratory, but never cloying – and liked too, the fine-tuning: … a tone of voice that promotes brevity … where the notes in question sing and tease and intrigue … "
In 2005, she founded poetry pf, website.
She read at the May 2009, Spring Festival, Artemis poetry, at The Artworkers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1, and at the Poetry Cafe, Salisbury.
She is a judge for the Havant Literary Festival, Hampshire. She is a member of the Poetry Society.
Work
Anthologies
- "Ten Hallam Poets", National Association of Writers in Education, 2005
- "Ten Hallam Poets" (eds Steven Earnshaw, E A Markham & Sean O'Brien), 2005, Mews Press