Not Waving but Drowning

Name: Not Waving but Drowning
Author: Stevie Smith

by Stevie Smith

Collection of sardonic poems including the famous title poem on despair

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Stevie Smith

Smith was primarily a poet but her three novels, especially Novel on Yellow Paper, are important works of experimental English fiction. Her quirky, oblique humour combined with genuine melancholy is unique in English literature.

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