Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

Stevie Smith

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Faber & Faber
01 January 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave

'I better say straight out that I am an addict of your poetry, a desperate Smith addict.' Sylvia Plath, writing to Stevie Smith, 1962

'Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.' Ali Smith

Stevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning.

By: Stevie Smith
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm,
ISBN: 9780571391615
ISBN 10: 0571391613
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 01 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stevie Smith (1902-1971) lived in Palmers Green, London, and for much of her life worked as a secretary for a magazine publisher. Her first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, appeared in 1936, and her final collection of poems, Scorpion, was published posthumously in 1972. In 1969 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.