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Angela McSeveny
Angela McSeveny is a poet, born in Edinburgh in

1964. Her early life was spent in Ross-shire, Livingston and the Scottish Borders. She has lived in the Scottish capital since returning to study there in 1982.

Subject and Style
McSeveney's poetry focuses on the private thoughts and situations of everyday life. David Kinloch writes of her second collection, Imprint, that her "subjects are common place and universal: the aftermath of a failed relationship, the death of another, child murders on TV, a woman's body, childlessness." Others comment on the apparent simplicity of her style. Talking of her first collection, Coming Out With It (1992), Tessa Ransford notes that her "syntax is uncomplicated, consisting of brief statements, clean-cup snippets, punctuated by full stops or not at all."