All The Poems of Stevie Smith

By Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem "Not Waving but Drowning" has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie. This new and updated edition Stevie Smith's collected poems includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to discovering never-before-published verses, the Smith scholar Will May gathers the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, provides fascinating details about their provenance, and describes the various versions Smith presented. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith's poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811223809
• ISBN13: 9780811223805
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely stunning Poetry

Even though her writing may seem small and humorous, Smith tackles so big name topics on paper such as religion, suicide, depression, being a woman, and so much more. Definitely a quick read if you don't take the time to think about what she is saying, but once you stop and think, it all comes together beautifully and without apology.