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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 ]
Stevie Smith reading "Not Waving But Drowning", BBC (includes poem text and poet's photo). Retrieved 12 December 2010; Author profile for Stevie Smith, LibraryThing. Retrieved 12 December 2010 "Pretty" by Stevie Smith from The Times, 13 May 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2010
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?
Pickstone's winning painting, Stevie Smith and the Willow, was based on an illustration accompanying Smith's 1957 poem "Not Waving But Drowning". [1] Pickstone said the painting's depiction of a girl bathing under a willow tree "might represent some kind of everywoman - an artist or mother or child", and while the poem is "very dark", she ...
Susan Smith has been behind bars for nearly 30 years after she rolled her car into a South Carolina lake, drowning her two young sons who were strapped in their car seats. Andrea Cavallier reports
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The Descent into the Cave, and Other Poems [19] The Prodigal Son [19] Louis MacNeice, Visitations [19] Norman MacCaig, The Sinai Sort, London: Hogarth Press [18] Edith Sitwell, collected works; Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning; Anthony Thwaite, Home Truths [19] Terence Tiller, Reading a Medal [19] C. A. Trypanis, The Stones of Troy
Stevie Nicks has written a poem to accompany Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Society.. The legendary singer-songwriter’s words are included as a prologue for the pop star’s 11th ...