Very sad news. It seems quite wrong, there's hardly anyone more alive. I got to meet Annie when she accepted my invitation to come and speak and stay at Oxford a few years ago. We discussed whether she might be bothered by the ghost of Auden on her staircase (she wasn't). I remember her being completely in accord with her generous presence here on the forum, being completely at home talking about new trends in poetry with student poets in an excessively noisy bar, and writing a sonnet afterwards based on a particularly bizarre sentence we overheard. I am very glad to have had the chance to get to know her and learn from her.
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