Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan George Seferis is the great

George Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century

drawing on themes of girlhood and womanhood

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

Marked by her distinctive lyric intensity

as do birds and plants and larvae

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems by Stevie Smith Laurie Duggan George Seferis is the great'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