Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of

uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal

Among New Zealand poet John Gallas's spirit guides are John Clare and

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

so riven with the senses

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of'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