Among poets, Stevie Smith (1902-1971) must take the palm for achieving a kind of immortality with just four haunting words: “Not waving but drowning.” There in a nutshell is, to quote Robert ...

Stevie: A Biography of Stevie Smith By Jack Barbera and William McBrien Oxford University Press, 378 pages, illustrated, $24.95 Who and what is Stevie Smith?/Is she woman? Is she myth?” The l… ...

In fact, Faber & Faber actively did something about it and released a selection of Cope’s poems in a slim, transportable volume: perfect commuter fodder. It turns out that this was the beginning of a ...

In 1957 Stevie Smith published a poetry collection called Not Waving But Drowning – and its title poem gave us a phrase which has entered the language.