Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

Not Waving but Drowning: The Poetry of Stevie Smith

‘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, 1962

‘Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.’ - Ali Smith

Stevie Smith was a famous poet in her lifetime and a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. Her p…