Anne is the founder of poetry p f and a provider of technical and administrative services to poets and other organisations, working with them on a variety of projects.

 

Her first collection The Janus Hour, was published in July 10 by Oversteps Books (see comments below), with a launch at the Charterhouse Bar & Restaurant, City of London (Mon 26th July 10, 7pm onwards… with singer/songwriter Janis Haves. All welcome. Free entry).

 

She is the Poetry Society’s ‘Kent North West’ Stanza Rep, Vice-President of Shortlands Poetry Circle and an administrator for Second Light Network. She co-edited (with Dilys Wood) the pre-launch issue and Issues 1 to 4 of ARTEMISpoetry, a biannual journal devoted to women’s poetry, and is the designer and editor of Second Light’s website, Second Light Live. She was the visiting poet at a London care-centre for two and a half years.

 

She is on the board of three Romanian (Eng/Rom translation) projects: Contemporary Literary Press (online publishing house), Contemporary & Literary Horizon (Eng/Rom literary journal) and Translation Café (online Eng/Rom translation project), for which she is the UK Language Consultant.

 

Her poetry is widely published in magazines and anthologies and has been awarded placings in several poetry competitions (more below). Her first collection, The Janus Hour was published by Oversteps Books in June 2010 and is available from July 2010 from their website or directly from Anne.

 

Following completion of an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, she was selected for inclusion in the “Ten Hallam Poets” anthology (Mews Press 2005). In a review of the anthology in Poetry London (2006), Roddy Lumsden said “(her) tight poem ‘More’ is one of the best in the volume…”. Julia Darling said of the collection that it is “high voltage” and Don Paterson, that “TEN HALLAM POETS” represents one of the most astonishing constellations of poetic talent to have emerged in the last ten years – not just from the North, or from our Creative Writing programmes, but from the whole of the UK…”
 
Comment on The Janus Hour:

 

Anne Stewart’s poetry is characterised by a view of the world that is quizzical, appraising, unflinching yet non-judgemental: this is how things look from here, it says; take it or leave it. Her poems address, with the same deft lightness of touch, both uncomfortable truths about our time and the surreal in the everyday, achieving a rare consistency of expression without ever being predictable.
 

Jeremy Page, editor, The Frogmore Papers
 

The Janus Hour is strong, resourceful and varied, dominated by its music and a sense of quest for survival, for the light behind the clouds. Mercurial, like a Fellini film.
 

Katherine Gallagher
 

Anne Stewart is a highly skilled poet whose poetry can be highly disturbing. Her sonnets, terza rima and other poems are beautifully wrought, yet her subject matter is very near the bone. Mothers, sisters, deaths in the family and a ‘list of cruelties’ are prominent in this book, which is essential reading for all interested in women’s poetry.
 

Merryn Williams, editor, The Interpreter’s House
 

Publications:

Collection: The Janus Hour, 2010, ISBN 978-1-906856-16-8. £8 from Oversteps Books

 

Magazines: ARTEMISpoetry, Brittle Star, Contemporary & Literary Horizon (Eng/Rom), Gabriel, Poetry Folio (Kent & Sussex Poetry Society), London Magazine, Matter 3, Measure Magazine (e-zine), Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, The French Literary Review, The Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter’s House.
 
Anthologies: A Twist of Malice (2008, Grey Hen Press), And the Story Isn’t Over…, Bridport Prize 2008, Lost & Found Poems (CD, Tongues & Grooves), Mr Barton Isn’t Paying, My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications), Poetry on the Lake – Wild and Stranger, Room, Stripe, Ten Hallam Poets (2005, Mews Press, eds. Sean O’Brien, Steven Earnshaw & AE Markham), Vision on 2003, Wigtown Poetry Competition.

 

Competition placements:
 

Winner: Bridport Prize (2008) – Listen to the poem on the Bridport site, Southport Poetry Prize (2009).
 
Other placements: East Street Poets, Frogmore Poetry Prize, Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Poetry on the Lake, Tonbridge Poetry Competion, Second Light Network, Templar Pamphlet CompetitionVer Poets, Virginia Warbey, Wigtown Poetry Competition.

 

Websites: D I C H T H A U E R (poetry tREnD, Eng/German), www.fine-words.com, nth position, Split the Lark Poets, Poetry Magazines digital archive (Frogmore Papers, issue 62 & others), Tongues & Grooves, Translation Café (Eng/Romanian)

 

Radio Broadcasts: National Broadcasting Corporation, Romania (Eng/Rom); Blyth Valley Radio.

 

As Translator/Polisher:

 

Book: aproape. atat de departe / close. so far away. Long poem by Lucian Vasilescu, 2009, Integral/Vinea
 
Anthology: Mi-ar trebui un sir de ani / It Might Take Me Years, 2009, Casa Cartii de Stiinta (15 poems).