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About Poet Anne Rouse (b. 1954)

Anne Barrett Rouse was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Virginia and read history at the University of London. She has since long been a resident of the United Kingdom. After reading History at Bedford, she was a prizewinner in the 1989 Kent Literature Festival and a guest reader at the 1990 Poetry Festival. Afterwards, she worked as a nurse and as the director of a local branch of the mental health charity Mind. Now a freelance writer, she has had numerous residencies, including fellowships at the University of Glasgow and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Rouse has been described by the International Poetry Society as an "accomplished and intelligent writer" and by others as a poet of "great formal deftness", with a fine gift for social themes incorporated into her poetry. A miniaturist, Rouse, especially in her earlier works, often draws upon her experiences as a mental health worker and nurse and displays elements of gothic horror. Her poems often fuse together the ordinary and the bizarre, often with use of satire and humor.

All four of her collections to date have been published by Bloodaxe Books, including Sunset Grill (1993) and Timing (1997), both of which were Poetry Book Society Recommendations.