Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan through the possibilities that sustain

through the possibilities that sustain the speaker aboveground: gardens and animals

drawing on themes of girlhood and womanhood

so riven with the senses

Marked by her distinctive lyric intensity

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan through the possibilities that sustain'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, 1963 '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