The collection encompasses literary works, including poems, poetry groups and collections, prose fiction, drama (including fiction radio scripts), opera libretti and other works written to be set to music, translations, notebooks, autobiographical writings and curricula vitae, interviews and questionnaires, biography, criticism (essays, reviews, lectures, talks, classes), criticism (groups and collections), book-length critical studies, radio scripts (non-fiction), notes, preliminaries, and miscellaneous writings; general correspondence files and groups of correspondence on particular topics; subject files; publications and other printed matter; images; sound recordings; and miscellaneous series, including small sets of papers of some of Stevenson's relations, and correspondence arising from the compilation of John Lucas and Matt Simpson, editors, 'The way you say the world: a celebration for Anne Stevenson' (Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2003).