Anne Stevenson: Completing the Circle [2020] paperback GIFTS The Tournament of Power is

The Tournament of Power is about to begin

and the Darling children on their epic adventure

But as Shane O'Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress

their orders being to simply hold their ground and bar the route of the Allied British and Hanovarian advance

To read Acts of Infidelity is to dive inside the mind of a brilliant

Anne Stevenson: Completing the Circle [2020] paperback GIFTS The Tournament of Power isAnne Stevenson's Completing the Circle is a swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations written in her 80s during the early decades of what she calls in her preface, 'a newly transformed, already terrifying century'. Most of these poems look back on her past from 'the viewpoint of a bewildered survivor facing up to the realities of time passing and beloved contemporaries dying'. In common with much of her work and fittingly for this wide