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Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. [ 1 ] The most famous of Smith's poems, [ 2 ] it gives an account of a drowned man, whose distant movements in the water had been mistaken for waving. [ 3 ]
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.
A fact from Not Waving but Drowning appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2009 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
Not Waving, but Drowning, a 2019 album by British rapper Loyle Carner. This album contains a track by the same name featuring an elderly woman, who speaks about the 1957 poem by Stevie Smith. Not Waving but Drowning, 2012 drama film "Not Waving but Drowning", a track on The Victorian English Gentlemens Club's 2011 album Bag of Meat
"Thomastown" by Not Drowning, Waving "Thornbury by Ruck Rover [3] "Three Oh Seven Ohh by Blood Duster "To Her Door" by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls [1] "Toorak Cowboy" by Skyhooks [1] "Toorak Tram" by Bernard Bolan, [18] "Tramway Hotel" by The T-Bones "Tribute To Eltham" by Muphin of Muph & Plutonic "Twist Senorita" by The Sports [1]
Image credits: James Carr #5. Shocking but true. Back in the 60s my mother took me swimming to a public beach at a lake on a hot summer day. A man, reading his newspaper on his lakeside porch, got ...
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Not Waving But Drowning is a 2012 drama film directed by Devyn Waitt, starring Vanessa Ray and Megan Guinan. A small town girl (Vanessa Ray) moves to New York City, and laments being separated from her best friend (Megan Guinan) while forging rewarding new relationships in director Devyn Waitt's feature-length companion piece to the short film The Most Girl Part of You (2011).