When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.
Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this wholly new edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career,
The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice.
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
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Subtopic
Literary Criticism in PoetryIndex
LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text
- Chronology
- A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL (1937)
- TENDER ONLY TO ONE (1938)
- MOTHER, WHAT IS MAN? (1942)
- HAROLD’S LEAP (1950)
- NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING (1957)
- SELECTED POEMS (1962)
- THE FROG PRINCE AND OTHER POEMS (1966)
- SCORPION AND OTHER POEMS (1972)
- APPENDIX I – UNCOLLECTED POEMS
- APPENDIX II – UNPUBLISHED POEMS
- APPENDIX III – TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SELECTED POEMS, THE FROG PRINCE AND OTHER POEMS, AND PENGUIN MODERN POETS 8
- APPENDIX IV – LIST OF ALTERNATIVE TITLES
- Notes
- Index by Title
- Index by First Line
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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