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''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.

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 10 October 2024
      ISBN-13 9780571391615
      978-0571391615
      ISBN-10 0571391613
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      Fiction Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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.

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