Matthew Bevis

Oct 2, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | mark ford |Matthew Bevis

‘Well: the poems were lying about, & I did not quite know what to do with them,’ Thomas Hardy wrote to Edmund Gosse shortly after the publication of his first collection, Wessex Poems (1898).

Dec 9, 2023 | nybooks.com | Matthew Bevis

A new exhibition shows that Elizabeth Bishop didn’t just send postcards; she collected, edited, and even made them.

Feb 22, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Matthew Bevis

‘You really cannot tell fully about a thing until the man’s work is all there,’ Auden said in an interview a few months before he died. Thanks to the magnificent efforts of Edward Mendelson, it’s now all here: prose, plays, libretti and, finally, the poems, coming to just over 7500 pages all told.