Not Waving but Drowning and other poems
$30.13
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
‘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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571391615 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571391613 |
| Author: | Stevie Smith |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 114mm x 178mm |
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Stevie Smith
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.
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